The Department of Agriculture recorded 351 mink farms in 2000, down from the 2,836 farms that were in operation in the early 1940s. While American consumers were gravitating away from real fur ...

"Mink farms no longer produce raw garments for American consumers, exporting all pelts to shrinking foreign markets, mainly in China," said Wayne Pacelle, president of Animal Wellness Action and ...

Jo-Anne McArthur (Canada) shows American mink kits fighting for space in a nest box on a fur farm. Conducting investigations into animal cruelty is dangerous, but for Jo-Anne it is important to ...

Vectors for Infection Risk in the United States Act (Mink VIRUS Act), bipartisan legislation endorsed by the Animal Welfare ...

Lithuania has proposed adding the American mink and the sika deer to the European Union's (EU's) list of invasive species, Baltic News Service (BNS) reported on Monday.

Voracious predators, wily American mink have posed a serious threat to native Scottish species ever since they escaped from fur farms and bred in the wild. Now, however, intrepid trappers have ...

There were at least 422 Covid outbreaks at 289 European and North American mink farms from last April 2020 to February 2021. The UK shut its last fur farm in 2003 but it has imported pelts worth ...

The Southwest Virginia Wildlife Center received its first American Mink in more than 5 years. The last time the center had a mink patient was 2019 and it’s only the seventh ever admitted ...

"A single American mink can wipe out an entire bird colony ... nearly 731,000 were being kept on fur farms. Sika deer that have escaped from enclosures and become naturalized also pose a threat ...