i wonder what type of mink these are? that looks like an american mink to me.....

the american mink has been responsible for the near extinction of european mink and there was a massive programme to limit the impact of american mink in the wild.... The european mink is a critically endangered animal so i what impact releasing 20000 american minks into spain will have.....????

here is a quote from the world conservation union

"The current range includes an isolated population in northern Spain and western France, which is widely separated from the main range in Eastern Europe.

Habitat destruction and degradation have had serious impacts on the species as has competition with American mink."

 http://www.iucn.org/en/news/archive/2007/05/ema_species_accounts.pdf

 http://www.iucn.org/en/news/archive/2007/05/ema_leaflet.pdf

What basis you're telling American and European mink apart on. I'm not jumping to judgement but are you an expert on mink?

Whats his sources?? The mass media! What do they profit in? Every industrial area of animal slavery. Really fuckin' credible!

Minks are free,from imminent death and continuing enslavement,and away from the "artificial inseminating" fur "farmer".

Fur industry = death industry

I'm not 100% sure how you tell one from the other. I did a google image search for "american mink" and for "european mink" - that's as much as i know

I only knew about the european mink because i recently had to do a short project on habitat destruction and species extinction for work.

yes yes i know the mink should never be bred for fur or kept in captivity or even be in the country. but releasing 20,000 mink into a foreign environment - bang! - all at once in one place means that they will immediately eat every source of food available then suddenly run out of food in that area. the huge majority will then slowly starve to death or eat each other(humane action eh?) cos there's nothing more to eat. the handful that do survive may gradually spread around the country, form colonies, displace, out-compete, out-eat or actually eat or spread lethal diseases to many indigenous species maybe causing their extinction. extinction means gone forever you know. introduced species like cane toads, grey squirrels, domestic cats are all having this effect around the world. every animal righter that i've ever known, never actually gives much of a fuck about the natural environment. hundreds of species of animals approaching extinction around the world because of human activity etc is a non issue. animal righters are usually too totally wrapped up in their misanthropic emotions to ever consider big issues like long term ecological consequences of their actions.

to my mind this sort of captive animals stuff is way less important than climate change, deforestation, destroyed habitats, war, globalisation, aids etc. i know i'm never going to convince you people otherwise but in future, instead of destroying the ecology, killing local fauna en mass and causing the released animals to starve to death in the wild by these mass releases, why not destroy the premises while it's empty awaiting the next batch of animals. cost them far more.

The "liberation" of mink into the wild in this country was monumentally stupid and still having a serious negative impact of the ecology.

Make sure you know what you are doing before you let any animal into the wild. Invasive species can eradicate native ones. There are enough species being wiped out without ignorant well-intentioned people adding to it.

 http://www.animalaid.org.uk/h/n/NEWS/news_wildlife/ALL/928//
 http://www.igorilla.com/gorilla/animal/mink_go_free_to_kill.html
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/902751.stm

can we give the mink an asbo for being racist or something

or ask them to stop as it causes global warming

im sure theyll understand