Mink are wild creatures meant to run, swim, hunt, construct dens, raise their young, and interact naturally with other members of their species—not spend their lives suffering in a cramped cell. What ...

VAN WERT COUNTY, Ohio (WANE) — Last year on November 15th rural Van Wert county was center stage to a mink hunt of titanic proportions ... the umber of mink in the wild, the wildlife division ...

To protect public health and the welfare of both captive and wild mink, AWI has called for a phase-out of the mink farming industry and, in the meantime, far greater transparency and enhanced disease ...

The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) said a wild mink had tested positive around an infected mink farm in Utah. Coronavirus outbreaks at fur farms in the US and in Europe have killed thousands ...

Mink, like their relatives, ferrets, are susceptible to respiratory viruses This is a very unusual chain of events: a virus that originally came from a wild animal, probably a bat, jumped into ...

Farmed mink in Europe are understood to have contracted HPAI from wild birds and then rapidly infected each other with the virus. “Fur factory farms pose a clear biosecurity risk to Oregonians and the ...

“We’re asking state wildlife regulators to do their job and take the action necessary to ensure that infected mink don’t spread this deadly virus to wild animals.” Mink are members of the mustelid ...

COVID-19 has been found in pets, zoo animals and in a wild mink in Utah. Monitoring wildlife for COVID-19 is important for animals and humans, both of whom face risks from a jumping virus.