Plan to acquire curling rink, including wide, controversial shoulder protection (4,4)

'controversial shoulder protection' is the definition.
(garment often opposed on animal rights grounds)

'plan to acquire curling rink including wide' is the wordplay.
'plan' becomes 'map' (I've seen this before**).
'to acquire' indicates putting letters inside.
'curling' indicates anagramming the letters (letters curl and twist out of order).
'including' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'wide' becomes 'w' (abbreviation e.g. in cricket).
'rink' anagrammed gives '[rink]'.
'map' enclosing '[rink]' is 'm[rink]ap'.
'minkrap' going around 'w' is 'MINK WRAP'.