Xie Yong, Dean of Shenyang University’s Art School in northeast China, has made 15 intricate art works covered in one million needles to call for awareness of animal protection, with the theme of saying “no” to fur. /CFP Photo

It took Xie a year to create this otter with 300,000 needles. The statue stands at a height of two meters and has a length of almost three meters. /CFP Photo

The needles are used to symbolically show the pain animals suffer when they are made into fur clothing. /CFP Photo

According to animal advocacy NGO Last Chance for Animals, more than one billion rabbits and 50 million other animals, including foxes, seals, mink and dogs, are raised on fur farms or trapped in the wild and killed for their pelts each year. /CFP Photo