On January 1, 2017, with the help of the Croatian Ministry of agriculture, the ban adopted in 2006 by the Animal Protection Act on fur farming, came into force in Croatia. It is a result of a ten-year long battle for the protection of animals, during which a minority of chinchilla breeders still hoped to have the ban abolished.
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