Like their fellow American imports, the dominant grey squirrels, that have largely purged our woodlands of Welsh red squirrels,
mink that were introduced into Britain by fur farms in the 1960s, are now gaining control of the waterways and coasts of Wales.
The investigation carried out by Irish-based branch of Compassion in World Farming showed fox and
mink:
A telephone hotline set up after the release of thousands of
mink from a Staffordshire farm four weeks ago was stopped yesterday.
The new store will be called Kenneth
Mink Fine Rugs & Home Accents, and will establish the company's independence and brand name after many years as a "silent" department store lease operator.
I'll start by telling you about my cousins the
minks. They're a lot smaller and, uh, slimmer than I am.
Squeezed by lower demand blamed on the animal rights movement, a slower world economy, and even warm weather, Oregon's 41
mink ranchers are feeling trapped themselves these days.
On their 80-acre ranch near Lawrenceburg, the Schmeltzers raise 8,500 black
mink. It's a business that's rare in indiana.
We captured
minks along the Hudson River and its tributaries using Tomahawk double-door box traps (Tomahawk Live Trap, Tomahawk, Wisconsin).
We isolated a novel MRV strain (named MRV1HBA) from a
mink with diarrhea in Hebei Province in northern China.
Judge Christopher Moss told
Minks: "You are a serial burglar and caused enormous loss."
It takes 65
minks to make a full length fur coat and 10-24 foxes to make a fox fur coat.
About 1,000
minks were set free earlier this month from the farm in Sundsvall, 210 miles north of Stockholm, by vandals who scrawled "DBF" - the Swedish acronym for Animal Liberation Front.
MILITANT animal rights activists have raided an Irish fur farm and released over a thousand
minks.
Although 7,000
minks were release by animal activists, less than 1,000 escaped from the farm compound.
Customers at the Wheatsheaf Inn were being offered cream of
mink soup for starters, roast lamb with
mink sauce for a main course,
mink tart and custard for dessert, followed by coffee and after-dinner
minks.