Denmark tightens lockdown in north, mink cull devastates industry

[ad_1] COPENHAGEN (Reuters) – Denmark announced strict new lockdown rules on Thursday in the north of the country after authorities discovered a mutated coronavirus strain in minks bred in the…

Mink ‘good reservoirs’ for COVID-19, Denmark shows courage in cull: WHO

[ad_1] FILE PHOTO: Caged minks are seen amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, at a mink farm in Gjoel, North Jutland, Denmark October 9, 2020. Ritzau Scanpix/Mads Claus Rasmussen via…

Finland starts cull of 120,000 foxes and mink to stem bird flu spread

[ad_1] Europe’s largest fox fur producer is taking drastic measures to help curb H5N1 infections. Finland, Europe’s leading producer of fox fur, has begun slaughtering 120,000 foxes and mink to…

Controversial Sweden wolf cull divides city and rural areas

[ad_1] Authorities allowed hunters to shoot a record 75 wolves, out of a total population estimated at 460 animals. Swedish hunters can hunt a record high 75 wolves, twice the…

Denmark to cull up to one million mink due to risk of coronavirus contagion

[ad_1] FILE PHOTO: Minks are seen in their cages in a mink farm in Jyllinge near Copenhagen, Denmark, October 24, 2012. REUTERS/Fabian Bimmer/File Photo COPENHAGEN (Reuters) – Denmark will cull…

Mink cull puts Denmark’s government in legal pinch

[ad_1] By Jacob Gronholt-Pedersen, Nikolaj Skydsgaard COPENHAGEN (Reuters) – The Danish government put forward hastily drawn up legislation on Tuesday to back up its order to cull all the country’s…

Danish mink farmers switch to brewing after last year’s covid Cull

[ad_1] Reinventing himself as a beer brewer at the age of 62 had never occurred to Poul Erik Vestergaard, a Danish mink farmer. But the country’s controversial cull of its…

Cayman Islands to cull feral cats to protect brown boobies

[ad_1] SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The Cayman Islands has announced it will start culling feral cats to help save a dwindling colony of brown booby birds. The islands’…

Dutch to cull around 84,000 chickens after bird flu detected

[ad_1] AMSTERDAM, March 1 (Reuters) – Around 47,000 chickens on a farm in the eastern Dutch city of Wageningen will be culled after the detection of highly infectious bird flu,…

DoE battles misinformation over feral cat cull – Cayman Islands Headline News

[ad_1] Feral cat with bird (from DoE social media) (CNS): The Department of Environment’s effort to control invasive species and the growing detrimental impact on endemic and local species have…