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ActAsia — Reduce Fur Demand in Asia (2020)

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  • Focus Area: Farm Animal Welfare
  • Portfolio Area: Farm Animal Welfare in Asia
  • Category: Global Health & Wellbeing
  • Organization Name: ACTAsia
  • Amount: $300,000

  • Award Date: January 2020

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    Media event aiming to spread fur-free messages to wider Chinese audiences. (Photo courtesy of ActAsia.)

    Grant investigator: Lewis Bollard

    This page was reviewed but not written by the grant investigator. ACTAsia staff also reviewed this page prior to publication.


    Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $300,000 over two years to ACTAsia to support research and reporting on the fur industry, fashion forums to discuss alternatives to fur, and corporate outreach to obtain fur-free pledges from retailers.

    This follows our March 2018 support and falls within our focus area of farm animal welfare.

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