An upmarket furniture shop in Norway has outraged animal rights activists after it was caught selling wolfskin rugs – despite the fact that the wolf is an endangered animal in the country.
The rugs were on sale for 27,800 Norwegian kroner ($4,682) each.
Ingunn Lund-Vang, from the animal rights organization Predator Alliance Norway (Bygdefolk for Rovdyr) on Sunday attacked the shop as “completely unethical and abusive” in a post on Facebook.
“There are no fur farms for wolves so either the wolf was shot somewhere, or it may be from abroad, where it is permitted to hunt wolves with a foot trap,” she told Norway’s VG newspaper. “This is a barbaric trapping method that involves hours of pain for the animals. If so, it’s even worse.”
Ruben Amundsen, Mobelringen’s general manager, on Sunday moved rapidly to diffuse the scandal, apologizing immediately. “We have now removed the skin, and it will never be for sale in the shop again,” he said.
He said that he had bought the wolf skins, which had been imported from Canada, at a design fair in Oslo. The skins’ importer, Erik Garthus, told VG that the trade was “perfectly legal”, stressing that the animal had been shot, not trapped.
According to Norway’s wildlife research organization Rovdata, the country’s wolf population is now down to less than 37 animals, leading some to fear that the animal could soon be extinct.
Exposing the Big Game 
Nothing surprising here. Swedish pseudo animal rights Group, the Perfect World, has an Ambassador that poses in wolf fur coat. According to the organisation they are supported by Jane Goodall and Animal Asia! More than scary!!!
@narhvalur, that is absolutely unbelievable!!! I’ll be looking into this group for sure…thanks for letting us know!
It’s very late now, I’ll give you links and photos tomorrow!
Can’t fathom that Jane would support that.
Re this story, It’s good to know that the director pulled the skin and promised not to sell them again. But who can make a statement that a wolf was “shot” and not trapped? Proof, please
Here’s info on the Swedish NGO, note also that they supports Huntington Life Sciences, Europes biggest animal lab!
http://havehest.wordpress.com/category/legal-actions-ragnhild-jacobsson-perfect-world-animals-hope-sweden/
I have written a protest letter to Jane , but no reply.
Here’s the offical website that first look decent but is only a Money milking cow:https://theperfectworldfoundation.org/
Thanks narhvalur. It’s not clear to me … yet. Will have to read carefully.