From the Amazon to Australia to Indonesia, the fashion industry's appetite for animal and plant-derived materials is leaving a trail of destruction that no certification scheme has yet managed to stop.

Wang Wang’s death has sparked international outrage, and her story has exposed a legal void that leaves millions of animals in China completely unprotected.

Two agricultural students filmed themselves placing fireworks inside a sheep's body and kept her ear tag as a trophy. Their conviction sparked a question the legal system is still struggling to answer: what does justice actually look like for an animal?

Can a company that has spent decades supplying monkeys to laboratories be trusted to define what retirement means for them?

Feather boas and trims are a festival staple, but most consumers don't know what they're actually made of, and the labels rarely help. Here's what you need to know.

Can “ethical” and “responsible” labels really be trusted?

Why is the crude and violent killing of wild animals being done in the name of conservation?

Fashion seems to agree that fur is unethical. But exotic skins – those deriving from crocodiles, alligators, lizards, ostriches, snakes and stingrays – conceal just as grim a reality.