Finland, Europe's leading producer of fox fur, has begun slaughtering 120,000 foxes and mink to stem an outbreak of avian flu that has hit fur farms ~enviro Article 290 words 8 votes
More than 1,000 mink farms in Denmark were ordered to close over fears of a Covid mutation – two years on, most will never reopen ~enviro Article 809 words 7 votes
Danish general election called after PM faces mink cull ultimatum – Mette Frederiksen bypasses vote of no confidence by calling 1 November ballot ~society politics Article 245 words 3 votes
Danish commission has harshly criticized the country's government for its decision to cull millions of healthy mink at the height of the coronavirus pandemic ~health Article 419 words 5 votes
Danish farmers turn their backs on mink after Covid mutation cull – just a handful of mink breeders express an interest in re-entering fur industry ~enviro Article 555 words 3 votes
Finland, Sweden and Norway to cull wolf population – conservation groups appeal to EU to take action against slaughter they allege flouts rules ~enviro conservation Article 938 words 9 votes
Pollution fears over mink buried after Covid culling in Denmark – signs of pollution detected at burial sites but no water contamination ~enviro pollution.ground Article 310 words 9 votes
Denmark will dig up millions of dead mink after a hasty cull and burial intended to stamp out a coronavirus mutation ended with a new contamination risk ~enviro pollution.ground Article 20 votes
Opposition MPs in Denmark have urged the government to dig up millions of mink that were buried in mass graves amid Covid-19 fears ~health Article 42 words 4 votes
Denmark's Minister of Agriculture has resigned over an illegal government order to cull the country's farmed mink – Mette Frederiksen also faced opposition calls to resign ~health Article 442 words 7 votes
Denmark's plans to cull seventeen million mink is facing legal obstacles after the government admitted it did not have a legal basis for the order ~health Article 226 words 10 votes
Danish veterinarians and farmers have begun culling at least 2.5 million minks in northern Denmark after coronavirus has been reported in at least sixty-three farms ~health Article 426 words 6 votes
Labs are euthanizing thousands of mice in response to coronavirus pandemic ~science biology medicine Article 1547 words 10 votes
Hong Kong to cull 4,700 pigs after second swine fever case found ~news hong kong Article 273 words 10 votes
Vietnam culled a further 500,000 pigs over the past two weeks to tackle an outbreak of African swine fever, taking the total killed so far to 1.7 million ~food Article 284 words 8 votes