THE ALF DESTROYS 12 HUNTING TOWERS.

14th August, Germany.

received anonymously via email:

“One Night, One Activist, and 12 Hunting Stands

On the night of August 14–15, 2025, I set out to ruin the hunters’ plans and to protect individuals from a cruel death at the hands of humans.

Seven hunting stands had been planned, which I had to leave standing on my last outing when I heard gunshots in the night.

To my frustration, I had to realize on the way that the hunting aids I had previously destroyed had been restored.

Hunters justify their killings with species and environmental protection. Yet they cause these very problems themselves by feeding wildlife in the winter, so that the animals do not migrate to other areas—if that is even possible.

This creates overpopulation, since there is enough food even in winter. The size of the herds increases the risk of disease, which is then combated with medication in the feed, resulting in weak and sick animals not dying naturally. These large herds then harm the forest, and in this way the hunters have created their own justification for killing.

To break this cycle, their tools—such as feeding racks, hunting stands, decoys, etc.—must be repeatedly destroyed so that they suffer significant financial losses and can no longer afford these schemes.

Such actions can and must also take place alone, regardless of the weather or whether friendly company is present.

As long as human animals kill non-human animals, we must fight for them and break all chains, open cages, destroy laboratories, and topple hunting stands.

With love,

ALF”

THE ANIMAL LIBERATION EXHIBITION 2025 – OPEN CALL.

The DoggybagCrew shelter is excited to announce the 2nd edition of the diy Animal Liberation Exhibition 2025 & to invite antispeciesist creators of all kinds or collectives to take part in a 2-day event in Athens, Greece, happening at the end of October (exact dates to be announced).

Our 1st edition  in November 2024,  was a 3-day antispeciesist event that took place at the Migrants Social Center in Exarchia that brought together creators from around the world to take a stand for animal liberation & solidarity.

This year’s event will once again bring together voices of creative resistance from across the globe, uniting through art to confront oppression, ignite dialogue and imagine a world where all beings live free from violence and exploitation.

Through art, we aim to raise awareness of the intertwined systems of oppression that exploit & brutalize both human and non-human animals. From factory farms & slaughterhouses to borders, prisons & warzones, our struggle is against all institutions that commodify life, destroy freedom & silence dissent. We envision a world beyond cages, chains & confinement. A world of total liberation, where speciesism, capitalism, colonialism & patriarchy are dismantled through solidarity & radical action.

We are looking for: Visual Art (painting, photography, illustration, sculpture, collage etc), Zines & Books, Video & Film, Music, Tattoo Art that explore direct action, resistance, veganism, animal liberation, personal narratives or stories of activism, works that motivate, provoke & inspire.

 The exhibition will support

The construction of the shelter

Vet expenses

Political prisoners

Solidarity initiatives in Palestine

Last year’s profits supported the shelter , the collective Vegan in Palestine & the comrades Cara &  Celeste, who were arrested and charged for a mink liberation in the USA.

 The exhibition will also feature

Film Screenings

Book & Zine Distro

Letter writing to prisoners

Vegan Food

Tattoo Sessions

Music

Merch …and much more.

Swipe for submission guidelines and how to get involved.

DEADLINE : 15 SEPTEMBER 2025

Images from the previous edition

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

HOW TO SUBMIT

Please send your submissions to [email protected]

with the subject line: “ALE submission”

FILE FORMATS

For visual art: Submit JPG or PNG files, no larger than 2MB each.

For books and zines: Submit files in PDF or DOC format.

For video submissions: Submit files in MP4 or MOV format, or provide a link for online viewing.

Final selected works will be requested in high resolution for the exhibition.

Transfer links are also accepted.

CREATOR INFO

Please include a short statement about your work and how it relates to the theme of animal liberation. You may also include a brief bio.

For any questions or further information, feel free to email us at [email protected]

or send us a DM on Instagram: @doggybagcrew

AI CREATIONS WILL NOT BE CONSIDERED!!

IMPEX NATIONAL DEMO!

WHAT: National protest against Impex, laboratory animal transporter
WHEN: 3rd August, 1PM
WHERE: Thrapston Memorial Peace Park, 76 Market Rd, Thrapston, Kettering NN14 4JU

received anonymously via email:

“Join us on August 3rd for a protest against Impex who transport 2,000 dogs every year from the notorious puppy factory MBR Acres to laboratories across the UK. Meet at 1pm at Thrapston Memorial Peace Park.

Being yourselves, placards, noise, and energy!”

VEGAN SALVAJE, AN ANIMAL LIBERATION, ANARCHO NIHILIST ZINE.

From Warzone Distro:

“This journal contains within a collection of vegan texts contributed by anarcho-nihilists from across the globe. After having conversations about nihilism, anti-civ anarchy and veganism, we, the authors of these texts have all decided to compile our writing into a multi-language zine not only as an expression of global solidarity, but also as a way to make anti-speciesist anarchist ideas accessible to the world. These words, written with the refusal to be silenced by laws and prison walls, represent a wildfire that burns through borders toward every city….

Long live total liberation!”

Download links in English and Spanish:

FBI SNITCH AMY UPHAM NOW RESIDING IN ASHEVILLE NC.

Via NAALPO:

Amy Upham and Selena Kate Lloyd (Lloyd is ~39 years old) of Buffalo, NY

Upham and Lloyd were tenants in the apartment above Burning Books, a book store in Buffalo, New York. They told agents from the FBI’s Buffalo office that the shop’s owners—Leslie James Pickering, Theresa Baker, and Nate Buckley—were inciting violence in workshops and talks at Burning Books. As a result, the FBI initiated two years of regular surveillance of the shop and Pickering and Baker’s home. This was exacerbated by the fact that Pickering was a former spokesperson for the North American Earth Liberation Front Press Office.

The surveillance ultimately embraced a potential “local eco-terrorist cell” (quote from FBI files) of nine locals: Pickering, Baker, Buckley, and six unnamed others. Lloyd appears to have a prior relationship with the FBI and a history of disrupting organizations and projects in Moscow (Idaho) as well as Buffalo.

Current Information: Upham has relocated to the Asheville, NC, area and is reportedly working for Blueridge Pride. From target Leslie James Pickering: “she went out of her way to go to the FBI with a list of people she didn’t like for whatever reason (even though everyone had always been kind to her) and try to frame them up as terrorists. Then, a year later she recanted her story to the FBI, saying that the so-called terrorist cell was actually just “good people with big hearts, trying to do right” or something like that. She’s a danger to be associated with.

Lloyd’s whereabouts are unknown. Both informants have reportedly struggled with mental illness, and Upham has described Lloyd as abusive and potentially dangerous.

APRIL DIRECT ACTION ROUND UP.

Sorry we are a little late for the monthly round up, better late than never hey?!

In the month of April we received seven reports of direct action for animal liberation. Here are the numbers:

Spain 1

Australia 1

Argentina 1

USA 1

Italy 2

UK 1

Five reports were related to anti hunting antics, one was a doxxing reports and a single report from Italy told us that some anonymous activists had liberated baby goats during Easter.

It was also interesting to read a report form the USA where someone has been vandalising all fur, leather and feather clothing coming in to the thrift store they work at to avoid anyone else profiting from it. It is an even more rad form of Steal From Work Day!

We also heard from the Susaron Prisoners, who have been helping kittens born inside the prison and have asked for support.

The month of April was a short one in terms of content for us, but we are still here and we will keep telling you all about folks fighting for animals in the underground.

UNTIL WE WIN!

FISHING BAY TRAP DISMANTLED, HUNDREDS OF FISH RELEASED.

March, Argentina.

received anonymously via email:

ENGLISH (translation):

“In one of our fishing sabotage outings (this includes any damage that can be done to the killers and their belongings and of course to hinder their killing activity) we came across a terrifying scene on the banks of the river, fishermen in the area created a trap for the fish, they made a path for the fish to access the shore, then they cover the access and when the river goes down, the fish are trapped, in this way they catch hundreds of fish, those that do not serve them or do not matter to them remain dead in the place. .

when we arrived we saw hundreds, many in the trap, many others dead, others agonizing and desperate in search of the scarce water that was in the small channel that went from the river to the trap.

We did not hesitate to try to help the agonized and stagnant fish and of course to break the trap, it was an impossible job and a race against time, we divided the task of returning all the fish to the river that were still alive and digging to make the channel deeper and have more water flow, but it was a never ending job to rescue all the fish that were trapped in the trap.

At one point in our work, a group of fishermen approached us, looking for blood to feed on since their fishing had not been good, with a little ingenuity we made them believe that those fish were poisoned and that we should send them to the river so that people would not be poisoned, luckily for those fish, they believed us and helped us to return many of the fish to the river.

after they left, some not so gullible assassins appeared, whom we could not persuade, taking several bags of fish as if they were an object. we were glad to have come across such a scene, which we were able to help hundreds of fish out of the countless that were there. once away, as a farewell to the place, we slashed the tires of several fishermen’s vehicles and scratched their cars.

fishing saboteurs”

SPANISH (original):

“en uno de nuestras salidas de saboteo de la pesca (esto incluye todo daño que se pueda hacer a los asesinos y sus pertenencias y claro entorpecer su actividad de matar) nos cruzamos con una escena terrorífica en las orillas del rio, pescadores de la zona crearon una trampa para los peces, hicieron un camino para que los peces accedan a la orilla, luego tapan el acceso y cuando el rio baja, los peces quedan atrapados, de esta forma atrapan cientos de peces, los que no les sirven o no les importan quedan muertos en el lugar..

cuando llegamos vimos cientos ,muchos en la trampa, muchos otros muertos, otros agonizando y desesperados en busca de la escaza agua que había en el pequeño canal que iba del rio a la trampa.

no dudamos en tratar de ayudar a los peces agónicos y estancados y claro romper la trampa, era un trabajo imposible y de carrera contra el tiempo, nos dividimos la tarea de devolver todos los peces al rio que aún estaban con vida y cavar para hacer el canal más profundo y que tenga mayor caudal, pero era un trabajo sin fin rescatar a todos los peces encajados.

en un momento de nuestra labor, se acerca un grupo de especistas pescadores, buscando sangre para alimentarse ya que su pesca no había sido buena, con un poco de ingenio les hicimos creer que esos peces estaban envenenados que debíamos enviarlos al rio para que la gente no se envenene, por suerte para esos peces, nos creyeron y nos ayudaron a devolver muchos de los peces al rio.

luego de irse aparecieron unos asesinos no tan crédulos, a quienes no pudimos persuadir, llevándose varias bolsas con peces tal cual si fueran un objeto. nos alegramos de habernos cruzado con tal escena, a la cual pudimos ayudar a cientos de peces de los incontables que habían. una vez lejos, a modo de despedida del lugar, pinchamos las ruedas de varios vehículos de pescadores y rayamos sus autos.

saboteadorxs de la pesca”

FLESHTV, A NEW PROJECT BRINGING TOGETHER ART AND ACTIVISM WITH A FOCUS ON ANIMAL LIBERATION.

FleshTV is a new platform aiming to bring together art and activism with a focus on supporting animal liberation.

Their very first project is a compilation featuring more than 20 musicians, composers from across the globe (in the fields of experimental music, sound art, noise, electro-acoustic, sound research). Each artist has contributed a track, a text and selected an organization (collective, sanctuary, non-profit,…) working towards animal liberation, with 50% of the project’s profits being donated to these chosen groups.

Some of the supporting groups are the ALFsg, who supports animal liberation prisoners, Agripunk, an italian animal sanctuary, Tras Los Muros, a spanish aninmal liberation photographer and even your favourite animal liberation anti-media collective Unoffensive Animal (aka US!!) in between many others.

They will be releasing their project to purchase on the 20th of October, and it will be limited to 170 copies.

To find more info, check them out on instagram @Flesh__TV and their website fleshtv.world where you can already pre-order their first issue!

Thank you FleshTV for the support!

FOUR POISON TRAPS FILLED WITH EXPANDING FOAM.

16th September, Bournemouth UK

received anonymously over email:

“4 poison traps filled with expanding foam to prevent wildlife getting into them and being killed.

We hadn’t planned the action but saw a young mouse next to one of the traps and knew that we needed to do everything we could to make sure they didn’t end up in the trap by putting down an alternative food source for them and rendering the trap impossible to enter with the expanding foam. It’s easy to walk by these monstrosities without noticing them or thinking that it’s too hard to do something about, or that it won’t make a difference because of how widespread the problem is. But it does make a difference to the individuals who would be murdered by them. It’s a simple action that is easy to get away with, so carry some foam with you and take a couple of minutes to save someone’s life. Once they’re broken, at least here they stay broken – we have no idea how many animals would have been lured to their death if the traps remained operational, but currently there is no danger to the animals in this particular area from these traps and that feels good. If they are ever repaired, we will keep on making it so they cannot kill. For all life.”

HOW WE SHUT FALKENBERG MINK FARM – DJURFRONT.

Sweden and the fur

In Sweden the fur industry mainly consists of mink farms, where about 442 500 minks were raised just to be killed in 2019. In the last twenty years, the number of mink farms in Sweden has declined sharply. Currently there are about 20 mink farms left. In addition to mink farms, there are rabbit breeders who raise a small number of rabbits primarily for fur production together with meat production. Historically, there was also fox and chinchilla farms for fur production in Sweden, but fortunately the last fox farm closed in 2001 and the last chinchilla farm in 2014. At that time, the Swedish animal rights organisation Djurrättsalliansen managed to save the lives of the 243 chinchillas that were left on the farm and relocate them to loving homes. There is no ethical ban on fox and chinchilla farms but what instead caused the farms to close was regulatory changes regarding how the animals were allowed to be kept. For example, foxes must be allowed to dig and be together with other foxes on large areas, and this is simply not profitable and therefore the farms were dismantled after the new requirements were introduced.

Similar regulatory changes that would mean the end of mink farms in Sweden have been discussed for several years but have unfortunately not been introduced. Sweden has for almost thirty years had an animal welfare law which says that animals should be “maintained and cared for in a good animal environment so that they get to embrace their natural behavior”. At the same time, mink farming looks basically the same today as it did at its beginning in the 1930´s. The mink farms being or not being has become a long-standing political accompaniment, not least in recent years when it has become an issue of terrorizing of farmers. It has, as always, not been a debate about the animals but rather about the farmers, income and earnings.

Several institutions, including the Swedish Veterinary Medicine Society, the Agriculture Agency and the Animal Welfare Authority, have over the years raised their voices about the fact that the mink farms do not comply with section 4 of the animal welfare law. It is the paragraph that deals with natural behavior and good animal environment. Regarding the mink farms, development has unfortunately been slower than that of the fox and chinchilla farms. The mink farms are significantly larger in number than the fox farms were and stopping the mink farm by means of stricter rules has proved to be easier said than done. Not surprisingly, economic interests have taken precedence over ethical values.

In the run-up to the 2002 elections, the Social Democrats, the Environmental Party and the Left Party promised that if they came to power, they would work for the abolition of the fur industry. A state investigation was carried out to determine how the settlement would proceed. In addition to tightening animal welfare rules, the possibility of imposing a total ban on fur farming was entirely considered on ethical grounds. The investigation was presented in 2003 and recommended tougher rules. This led to a draft law presented in 2005 which meant that a new paragraph would be introduced in the fourth paragraph which would only apply to minks. Minks would be given the right to climb, move, be alone, hunt and swim. In the spring of 2006, the proposal was sent to the European Union for reference. France opposed the proposal, and even though Sweden won in the end, the process drew out of time. The proposal could not be taken up in Parliament before the elections, which would have been a prerequisite for the then government to live up to its election promises. Instead, Sweden received a bourgeois government, and the bill was rejected in December 2006.

Also in 2011 and 2012 the proposal from the left side came up for a vote in Parliament, but was voted down. Instead, the government commissioned the Agriculture Agency to formulate new requirements for mink farming that did not impose such far-reaching requirements so that the industry would become unprofitable and needed to be abolished. The new regulations of the Agriculture Agency from 2012 mean a number of very marginal differences for animals from previous regulations. Among other things, the minks are required to have a small toy, e.g. a plastic tube, in the minimum cage. The new regulations also mean that so-called floor levels will be used in the cages, which means that a small extra cage is placed on top of the original cage. That gives the minks a few extra centimeters of space.

At the end of January 2021 the government, together with the Swedish Agriculture Agency and the State Veterinary Institute, announced that a ban on mink breeding will be introduced in Sweden in 2021. The decision was taken due to the pandemic, when the coronavirus was detected on 23 out of 26 Swedish mink farms. During 2021 no new minks were allowed to be bred, which is something that is done on farms annually in normal cases, but despite the ban the farmers could keep the breeding animals. In 2023 it was announced that the government proposes to allocate a total of SEK 180 million in 2024 and 2025 to support those entrepreneurs who voluntarily liquidate their mink farming for fur production. The aid is intended to be paid to companies after liquidation in the period 2024-2025. It is not, therefore, a ban on mink farms for the sake of the animals, but rather to attract farmers with money because they cost too much to keep.

The struggle for the Minks has therefore been going on for many years and continues to this day. Opinion polls have repeatedly shown that a large majority of the Swedish people are against fur farming. Again and again, however, economic interests have gone before the animals, and politicians have repeatedly betrayed the animals.

The mink
The minks within the fur industry live their entire lives in mesh cages. The cages are set up close to each other in long rows. The Swedish cages are normally the size of an open-ended evening newspaper, with a small box as a bucket. A territory in the wild is usually between a half and six kilometers long and always stretches along the water.
The adult minks that is used in breeding live alone in their cages, because otherwise they would fight with each other. After the annual mating season, an average of five pups are born. They are allowed to stay in their mother’s cage until they are about eight weeks old and are then placed in pairs, usually a female and a male, in their own cages. In the wild, the mink lives in solitude, completely alone, and claims its own territories. They only socialize with others during mating season and the young’s first twelve weeks of life.
The minks are fed once or twice a day at the farms. The food is a kind of mash with products from the meat and fishery industry, which is placed on the roof of the cage so that the minks can lick it. Minks are natural predators that in the wild hunt rodents, fish, crustaceans and birds. Even larger animals such as rabbits and cats have been killed by minks. A large part of the hunting takes place in water and minks are therefore highly skilled at diving and swimming. They are adapted for life both on land and in water and are therefore referred to as semi-aquatic, as evidenced by the fact that they have some swimming skin between the toes. The fur industry often claims that the minks that are kept on Swedish mink farms have been bred to thrive in the cage environment. This claim lacks evidence. Instead, research shows that farmed minks’ behaviors and needs largely overlap with the wild minks. There are no species that by breeding have started to thrive in cages. Small changes to the cages, such as putting in toys or shelves, have not been shown to make enough difference when the minks are still sitting in these extremely small and dull cages. However, stereotypical behavioral disorders decreased when minks were given significantly more space and access to water. A type of livestock farming that is not economically profitable for the fur industry.

Death
During November-December all minks are killed except those who are to be used for breeding. The mink pups have by this time reached the age of six months and are big enough to be skinned. They are usually killed by placing several individuals in a covered box filled with carbon dioxide. Inhalation of carbon dioxide is painful for all animals and the method can take a long time, especially if there´s to many in the box at the same time. On the inside of these boxes, like in the gas chambers used by the Nazis, there are signs of pure panic. Mink pups that are younger than 14 days old may be killed by beating.
In 2024 the last slaughter of minks is said to take place in Sweden, following a government decision in 2023.

The war
The campaign, simply called Stäng minkfarmen i Falkenberg (Close Falkenberg mink farm), was born on 8 July 2017. Before that, many actions had taken place against both this particular farm and others, but it was now that the newly launched animal rights organization Djurfront really began to point them out in order to streamline the work. In connection with the campaign launch we asked for help in the form of financial support, materials, information and basically anything that could help us. It turned out that many who either did not dare or could not be physically present wanted to support our work and help in other ways. After all, there is a great opposition to fur farms among the average man in Sweden, but this is something that politicians still chooses to close their eyes to due to the great economic gain and self-interest. Without the Corona pandemic, it is highly likely that at least a few mink farms would still have existed just as before the decision to close them.

Shortly after the campaign started, we took note of the Länsstyrelsens report of the mink farm in Falkenberg, which had been denied on several points. Among other things, we read about how the animals bit themselves in the tail and lost fur, that there was no lighting so that supervision of the animals could not be carried out, that the floors were lacking in almost all cages which is a requirement from January 2014 and that there were no records of which medicines and which animals were treated by a veterinarian. These reports would only be increasing over the years. Nevertheless, the owner of the farm Niclas Pettersson was never sentenced to animal prohibition, even though he actively refused to comply with the law and was even up in court regarding this. Inspections and controls by the Länsstyrelsen are actually supposed to take place annually according to the law but this happens very rarely, sometimes at several years’ intervals or even never. This applies not only to fur animals, but to the entire animal industry in Sweden. The Länsstyrelsen itself believes that this is due to a staff shortage while Djurfront believes it is because of a lack of interest in the welfare of the animals. For example, in 2016, only 8 checks were carried out on Sweden’s 70 mink farms.

In August of the same year, Djurfront’s campaign began to reach out to the media. Our methods, which were relatively new in Sweden at the time, or at least previously unknown to the public, created debate. Many agreed but did not support what they called “terrorism”, while others did not agree at all on any level. Although whatever side they were on, they were upset and this contributed to the media spread and to awaken the debate. Other countries had slowly but surely already banned fur farming, for example the Czech Republic, but Sweden did not want to be a pioneer when it came to fur. They closed their eyes, turned their eyes away or shifted their focus to the terror they thought the farms and farmers were subjected to. Once again, the animals were forgotten as they suffered in their cages.

The Swedish Agriculture Federation, LRF, had now chosen to enter the debate. They visited the farm in Falkenberg together with some privates to show their support and, as they themselves expressed it, as a resistance to the activists visiting the farm. They emphasized cohesion, strength and family feelings as they walked around the corridors and photographed and laughed at the animals that the day had been blessed with beddings, something we never saw before that day. In connection with LRF’s visit Niclas Pettersson puts up cameras and a new fence around the farm in Falkenberg, probably thanks to grants and help he received.

After this, our resistance would escalate. Djurfront was well aware of how we were depicted by those who support fur farming, but to their regret we chose to embrace that role rather than reject it. The demonstrations become more intense, flyers, banners and posters were printed up with the message to close the mink farm in Falkenberg, home visits to Niclas Pettersson were organized, activists were chained to the farm gates and demonstration trains through Falkenberg were carried out. Pettersson did also receive phone calls at all times of the day and night from different numbers, sometimes hundreds, and other times it was even Niclas himself who called around to his “colleagues” while behaving extremely suspicious. Vandalizations against both the farm, Pettersson himself and high-ranked people within Svensk Mink (Swedish Mink) was a fact and something that would prove to be extremely effective. The fight has been long and intense and it is impossible for us to rewrite every detail, no matter how important it may be. Therefore, here is a summary of some of the events over the years that we think deserves to be mentioned.

July 2017 – the campaign Stäng minkfarmen i Falkenberg is born.
August 2017 – the first of many demonstrations takes place at the farm.
September 2017 – Djurfront is attending and demonstrating at a meeting for mink farmers at the farm.
October 2017 – an activist is abused by Pettersson after that Djurfront was blocked by his friends on their way home from the farm.
October 2017 – Djurfront chains themselves to the farm’s gates.
October 2017 – Pettersson hits an activist with his car during a demonstration.
October 20017 – during a demonstration at the farm, the tires of the activists’ cars are punctured.
November 2017 – An activist climbs up an alarm tower outside the farm and attaches an ALF-flag to the top.

November 2017 – outside the Parliament House in Stockholm and in the center of Falkenberg, demonstrations are held with the message to close the mink farm.
November 2017 – Djurfront enters the mink farm and broadcasts live on Facebook. In the live you can see both alive and dead minks in piles. Pettersson pushes, threatens and beats the activists. Finally, Pettersson along with his son and colleagues, surrounds an activist and abuses him and strips off his masking. The activist uses defensive spray but does not resist.
December 2017 – a demonstration outside the parliament in Stockholm is held where the message is to close the mink farm in Falkenberg.
December 2017 – A demonstration is held outside the Swedish embassy in Chile calling for the closure of the mink farm in Falkenberg.
January 2018 – A party leader debate in parliament is interrupted by activists urging politicians to close the mink farms.
March 2018 – A film of Marcus Holmgren, highly ranked within the Swedish Agriculture Federation and big supporter of mink farms that we met at the farm in Falkenberg, published by unknown source where he is looking for women and dogs for sexual activities.
May 2018 – an activist is abused by Pettersson during a demonstration at the farm.
May 2018 – a double demo is held where activists demonstrate both at Pettersson’s home and at the mink farm simultaneously.
May 2018 – Länsstyrelsen publishes a report after a check up at the farm in Falkenberg that the animals are killed illegally as the killing process takes up to 15 minutes.
June 2018 – Johan Dalén, CEO of Svensk Mink, is visited by Djurfront at his home where animal friendly messages are sprayed.
June 2018 – Niclas Pettersson gets visited at night and animal-friendly messages are painted around his residential area.
November 2018 – activists free 5000 minks.
November 2018 – Activists from Djurfront are charged after chaining themselves at the mink farm in Falkenberg. The trial will take place in December of the same year and a demonstration will be held outside the courtroom. The activists are sentenced to fines.

December 2018 – Johan Dahlén, CEO of Svensk Mink, gets his car and his house vandalised. Dahlén quits his work after this.
February 2019 – Niclas Pettersson receives a plastic skeleton with his name on it.
April 2019 – Djurfront holds an animal rights camp in Falkenberg.
May 2018 – An action is held during a football match where Falkenberg FF plays sponsored by Niclas Pettersson.
June 2018 – Niclas Pettersson’s car is burnt down outside his home.
August 2018 – Four activists are arrested during a demonstration outside the mink farm in Falkenberg after refusing to take off their masking.
December 2019 – a demonstration is held outside Jörgens Martinsson’s home, who is the new CEO of Svensk Mink.
December 2019 – Niclas Pettersson receives an unwelcome home visit. The farm is being visited by activists simultaneously.
January 2020 – another unwelcome visit to Pettersson is made. Pettersson himself is hiding behind the curtains in his home.
March 2020 – A trial is being held with one of Djurfront´s activists who is accused of damaging the hearing of a person at the farm with his megaphone. The activist is sentenced to six months in prison and a fine of SEK 30 000.
April 2020 – A demonstration is being held outside Niclas Pettersson’s home. Petterssons is visible in the window but doesn’t dare to come out. Posters are glued up at his home.
June 2020 – a major demonstration is held at the farm where people photographs the minks and then continues home to Niclas Pettersson. There, the police begin to use force to take off the activists’ masking, select individual activists for removal and photograph activists without masks.
January 2021 – 600 minks are freed by activists.
January 2021 – The government decides that no minks will be bred in 2021 due to the Corona pandemic.
February 2021 – Djurfront broadcasts live at the mink farm in Falkenberg as they enter the farm to check if Niclas Pettersson has the breeding minks there. Pettersson has kept a low profile lately and we suspect that he has plans to close his business.
May 2021 – an activist is convicted of several actions against both the mink farm in Falkenberg and other farms in Sweden. The activist is sentenced to a fine.
2021 – the fur industry is on its knees and Niclas Pettersson believes that the 3 million SEK in subsidies from the state will not be enough for him to survive. After some investigations, Djurfront can conclude that Pettersson has large debts.
2021 – 2023 – Niclas Pettersson is hardly ever seen. He doesn’t make any interviews or statements and Djurfront can’t see any activities at the mink farm. Activists are there to photograph and investigate but it appears generally dead.
September 2023 – The County Board confirms that the mink farm in Falkenberg is closed.

The fight continues
Apart from the crisis during the pandemic that became the idiom nail in the coffin, I personally believe that the intensity of Djurfront in the fight was what caused Pettersson and the farm to fall. We fought on all fronts 24 hours a day and, in short, we made Niclas Pettersson crazy. He did not have a moment of rest and even though our activists also encountered backlashes such as fines and prison sentences, they took it on with a pride. Of course, for the sake of the fight, but above all for the animals. If you have been to a mink farm as an empath and seen the poor minks monotonously move in circles, bite themselves or completely apathetically just exist in the tiny cage, then you know what it is all about. It may sound like a cliché, but what does a fine or a few months in prison mean compared to a whole life in a prison cage, only born to die during an enormous amount of anxiety and fear.

The fight continues. It has to. The closure of the mink farm in Falkenberg was a victory and we look back on our work with pride, but yet there are billions and billions of animals around the world who need our help. We must continue to fight for each individual and if this campaign has taught us something, it is that resistance produces results. It may take time, but sooner or later, what stands in the way of the future will have to move.

For every individual and until everyone is free.

Djurfront, Sweden.