81. SETAC 2003 PW02 wildlife as Ecological Receptors at Hazardous Waste Sites Exhibit Hall Key words dioxinlike toxicity, PCBs, mink, wildlife risk assessment http://abstracts.co.allenpress.com/pweb/setac2003/document/?ID=30043

82. Wildlife Watching Boat Trips From Oban, Argyll - Sealife Adventures Cruises, Sco wildlife watching boat trips and cruises on the West Coast of Scotland, the otter may benefit other wildlife by reducing the number of naturalised mink. http://www.sealife-adventures.com/otter.htm

Home Information Porpoise II Your skipper ... Live WebCam Otter The West Coast of Scotland is the heart of the Otter's stronghold, and despite being largely nocturnal they are also active during the day, and so sightings do occur during our boat trips. These superb hunters are perfectly adapted to an aquatic life. They are streamlined, and have webbed feet to help them swim underwater, enabling them to hunt for shellfish, eels and other fish, which they catch in dives of up to four minutes. They close their nostrils as they dive to prevent a nose full of water. Food is usually brought ashore to eat, but otters can sometimes be seen swimming on their backs, eating shellfish. Their sharp teeth help them crunch their way through fish, bones and all. Otters hold a large territory, sometimes as large as 20 square kilometres, and move widely within this area. This can make their movements more difficult to predict than other animals and birds. They mark their territory with 'spraints' - oily secretions that let other otters know that the area is already lived in. The female otter gives birth to up to three young, which can be born at any time of the year, and are born blind and naked in a holt - the name given to an otters den, usually a hole or burrow amongst rocks or under tree roots. The young stay with the mother for around a year, and their father - the dog otter - has little or no contact with them. Adult otters tend to remain apart, usually coming together only to breed.

83. Utah Division Of Wildlife Resources They harvested mainly beaver, but also otter, mink and other fur that Wolves,wolverine, coyotes, bobcats, fox, mink and other predatory wildlife were http://www.wildlife.utah.gov/furbearer/furbearer_info.html

document.write(""); Posted Thursday, June 5, 2003 Furbearers program background information Utah, like much of the United States, was first explored by fur trappers prior to settlement. William H. Ashley, Peter Skene Ogden, Jim Bridger and Osborne Russell were some of the trappers to come to this area in the early nineteenth century. They harvested mainly beaver, but also otter, mink and other fur that were in demand. Their journals provide some of the earliest descriptions of the flora and fauna of Utah. According to records and accounts written by early explorers, naturalists and settlers, furbearer populations have changed since settlement during the mid-1800s. At that time wolves, wolverine, lynx and otter were common. Beaver were also plentiful, but due to excessive harvest were reduced to the point that in 1897 it became illegal to harvest beaver. This restriction was retained for six years. Otter had also become rare. By 1912, beaver had increased and in some areas were causing problems. From that time until the present, the harvest of beaver and other furbearer populations has been regulated. Extensive efforts were made to eliminate "vermin" furbearers in the mid-1800s. Wolves, wolverine, coyotes, bobcats, fox, mink and other predatory wildlife were hunted by elimination parties to reduce depredation problems. Wolves and wolverines have both been rare, if not extirpated, in Utah since 1910.

84. Our Beautiful World: Kamchatka, Animals - Wildlife American mink (Mustela vison), muskrat (Ondatra zibethica) and Part of extabove from Arctic wildlife, By Fred J. Kane Arctic Fox (Alopex lagopus) http://www.vulkaner.no/t/kamchat/animals.html

Our Beautiful World KAMCHATKA, Russia Animals on Kamchatka The Brown Bear of Kamchatka Courtesy: www.kamchatka.org.ru 3. Animals on Kamchatka August 25th, 2004 - working on the Kamchatka project There are 43 mammal species in the Kamchatka Oblast, nine of which are marine mammals (excluding migrating whales and dolphins. American mink (Mustela vison) Courtesy: Mammal of Isle Royale, NPS Muskrat and Canadian beaver, Three species have been introduced: American mink ( Mustela vison ), muskrat ( Ondatra zibethica ) and Canadian beaver ( Castor canadensis Then there are 240 species of birds, 3 spedies of bats and 2 species of amphibians. Of these, about 40 birds, 12 cetaceans and 2 terrestrial mammals are rare or endangered. Courtesy: www.kamchatka.org.ru The King of Kamchatka: The Brown Bear, Ursus arctos Kamchatka has one of the highest populations of brown bear ( Ursus arctos ) in the world.

85. Wildlife Viewing Nulhegan Gateway Association Silvio O. Conte National Fish and wildlife Refuge Nulhegan Basin Division mink, river otter, beaver, and muskrat frequent the watercourses. http://www.nulhegan.com/nulhegan/What_to_Do/Outdoor_Activities/Wildlife_Viewing

86. Kent Wildlife Trust Securing a better future for the native wildlife and Kent and Medway mink areoften mistaken for otters but are much smaller. As a rule of thumb, http://www.kentwildlife.org.uk/usefulinfo/wildlife/ispages/is_otters_&_water_vol

Kent Wildlife Trust Securing a better future for the native wildlife and Kent and Medway Kent Wildlife Trust, Tyland Barn, Sandling, Maidstone, ME14 3BD Reg Charity No: 239992 Vat Reg No: 204 7991 54 Tel: 01622 662012 Email:Info@kentwildlife.org.uk These two aquatic animals were once far more common in Britain than they are today. Although the reasons for their decline are many and varied, people are the root cause of most of these. It follows that we also hold the key to the survival and recovery of both otters and water voles. OTTER Appearance Otters have long slender bodies with small ears, a long thick tail and webbed feet. They have mid-brown fur, often with a creamy white underside. Otters are large animals: head / body length 60-120cm, tail 40-45cm. Weight on average: 10 kg for males, 7 kg for females. Mink are often mistaken for otters but are much smaller. As a rule of thumb, mink are smaller than a domestic cat, otters are much larger. They are also generally darker in colour and do not have a pale underside.

87. Environment Agency - Water For Wildlife Project Suffolk wildlife Trust held several workshops for landowners regarding water voleconservation and methods for controlling mink (water vole predators). http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/subjects/recreation/345623/631029/796360/82

88. World Wildlife Kingdom World wildlife Kingdom (formerly known as wildlife Inc.) has failed to meet minimal A mink bit a wildlife Inc. employee. The mink was later euthanized. http://www.wildlifepimps.com/WorldWildlifeKingdom.htm

World Wildlife Kingdom USDA License #33-C-0186 46 U.S. Route 20, Cherry Valley, IL World Wildlife Kingdom (formerly known as Wildlife Inc.) has failed to meet minimal federal standards for the care of animals used in exhibition as established in the Animal Welfare Act (AWA). The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has cited World Wildlife Kingdom numerous times for failure to provide veterinary care, maintain structurally sound enclosures, and provide environment enhancement for primates. World Wildlife Kingdom has been fined $1,625 by the USDA for two incidents in which children were bitten by a lion and a monkey and for leaving a teenager in charge of a black bear. World Wildlife Kingdom is a poorly managed roadside zoo that uses animals in commercial activities, such as breeding, buying and selling, and hauling animals to shopping malls, nursing homes, and private parties. Contact PETA for documentation. Animals in recent inventory: guinea pigs, rabbits, primates, prairie dogs, bats, skunks, ferrets, pot bellied pigs, goats, sheep, binturong, a jungle cat, foxes, bobcats, coatimundis, cougars, bears, tigers, wolves, lions, a python, and alligators. October 2, 2000:

89. Water & Wetlands Wiltshire wildlife Trust is delighted to report the return of the water vole mink, brought into the UK by the fur trade, have succeeded in breeding in http://www.wildlifetrusts.org/index.php?section=news:water&id=900

90. USDA Forest Service - About Us Denuse by mink. Journal of wildlife Management. 33(4) 1025-1026. 27112. 32.Shiflet, Thomas N., ed. 1994. Rangeland cover types of the United States. http://www.fs.fed.us/database/feis/wildlife/mammal/muvi/all.html

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91. NERI - Department Of Wildlife Ecology And Biodiversity - Staff Members 1995, M.Sc. in biology with specialism in wildlife biology, Hammershøj,M. Population Ecology of mink Mustela Vison Population Dynamics and Trophic http://www2.dmu.dk/1_Om_DMU/2_afdelinger/3_vibi/medarbejdere2_en.asp?PersonID=mh

92. Lords Hansard Text For 27 Oct 2004 (241027-09) My noble friend recognises that mink cause a great problem in the wildlife inthe countryside needs to be managed, and one way of doing so is to do http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld200304/ldhansrd/vo041027/text/41027-0

Search Advanced Search Home Glossary Index ... Parliament Live section... Parliamentary Publications and Archives Site Map Bills Hansard Directories Frequently Asked Questions Judicial Work Previous Section Back to Table of Contents Lords Hansard Home Page Baroness Golding: 27 Oct 2004 : Column 1307 that there may be up to 110,000 mink in this country following their release from farms. Seven per cent of 110,000 amounts to a lot of mink. Lord Hoyle: I do not want to interrupt my noble friend other than to correct one point. I said 1.7 to 2 per cent, which is less than my noble friend is saying. Baroness Golding: The figure of 7 per cent is quoted in Hansard and that is the figure that I am quoting. In any case, there are far too many mink in our countryside. Wildlife in the countryside needs to be managed, and one way of doing so is to do something about mink. I hope that Defra will take note of this amendment. Lord Livsey of Talgarth: It is extremely difficult to debate this subject when, as has already been said, the countryside and the environmental circumstances are very different in different parts of the United Kingdom. I heard the noble Lord, Lord Mancroft, say that wildlife management was very important in relation to this amendment, and quite right too, but in other parts of the country pest control is also extremely important. I believe that the amendment covers both wildlife management and pest control. The issue of wildlife management in the countryside makes the Bill workable. It is through habitat conservation and development that hunted species and, indeed, many other mammals obtain the cover to exist and thus produce biological diversity. The Bill would enable that to happen and it is extremely important because it is in line with the EU biodiversity directives. Indeed, the Government have signed up to such directives. Therefore, the Government have a duty to ensure that wildlife is managed properly in the countryside.

93. House Of Commons Hansard Debates For 6 Mar 1998 (pt 6) The Bill is supposed to deal with the protection of our wildlife, among otherthings. If we do not destroy mink, they will destroy our wildlife. http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm199798/cmhansrd/vo980306/debtext/8030

Search Advanced Search Home Glossary Index ... Parliament Live section... Parliamentary Publications and Archives Site Map Bills Hansard Directories Frequently Asked Questions Judicial Work Previous Section Index Home Page Mr. Soames: Does the hon. Lady agree that many local councils and other bodies that are responsible for good order on river banks are extremely grateful to mink packs for the work that they do in keeping the river banks a better and safer place? Mrs. Golding: I entirely agree with my hon. Friend. I have a letter from East Dorset district council, which has congratulated the mink hounds group in the area on helping it to control the mink population on the Moors Valley river. The council found that the mink were getting out of control and called in the hounds. In fact, they managed to catch a fair number of mink. Some people might think that the hounds do not catch mink, but I have here the record of one of the hunts which shows how many have been caught and how our wildlife has been preserved. 6 Mar 1998 : Column 1303 Subsection (3) of new clause 3 states: "When any otter is located during the course of hunting all dogs under the control of the person hunting shall be withdrawn from the vicinity immediately."

94. Friends Of The Earth: Press Release: EXTINCT RATTY TO BE CUT FROM WIND IN THE WI A new character, American mink, has joined the stoats, weasels and ferrets The Bill must be amended to protect local wildlife sites, and ensure species http://www.foe.co.uk/pubsinfo/infoteam/pressrel/2000/20000408000139.html

Skip navigation and title Home: Press releases: Search ... Contact Home Join Campaigns: Biodiversity Climate Corporates Global Trade Real Food Safer Chemicals Transport Waste Local campaigns Press for change: Jobs Volunteering Publications Press Releases About Us Links Contact Us EXTINCT RATTY TO BE CUT FROM WIND IN THE WILLOWS? 08 Apr 2000 NOTICE TO PICTURE DESKS The Wind in the Willows is available on request. The cover is based on Ernest Shephard's classic drawings of Mole, Badger, Toad and Ratty but a white blank has been left where Ratty should be. The blurb has also been amended to reflect the loss of Ratty from the book, and his replacement by the aggressive American Mink. The artwork is available as an Acrobat file, or in printed format. , said Toad. said Mole The Wind in the Willows - Revised Edition 2005. Friends of the Earth will this week provide Michael Meacher with a tragic glimpse into the future,when they present the Environment Minister with a 2005 Revised Edition of the children's classic Wind in the Willows. Sadly, one of the central characters, Ratty (a water vole) has had to be written out of the script and cut out from the illustrations.

95. Satya Aug. 1999: Wild For Mink By Lisa M. Collins the ground will reintroduce the mink to Cape Romain National wildlife Refuge, After an outflux of birds and other wildlife from the sanctuary in the http://www.satyamag.com/august99/sat.61.mink.html

Wild For Mink in South Carolina By Lisa M. Collins A Plan for Restoration The state wildlife department is planning to do something about that. A program just now getting off the ground will reintroduce the mink to Cape Romain National Wildlife Refuge, a sanctuary near Charleston. After an outflux of birds and other wildlife from the sanctuary in the 1970s due to pollution, pelicans, Ospreys and other sea birds have returned recently, explained Buddy Baker of the S.C. Department of Natural Resources. The theory is that the return of the sea birds is an indication that the water might be clean enough to support minks again. Buddy Baker and a graduate student from Clemson University have worked for three months to refine capture techniques around the wetlands off of Hilton Head Island (one of the southernmost parts of South Carolina, near the Georgia border). The mink are abundant in this area, and easily spotted at night during high tides. Since April, 13 minks have been captured with shrimp and crab nets and transported 25 miles north to the wildlife sanctuary. Why Bother?

96. Fleshing Mink With Deer Bones, Alaska Department Of Fish And Game How to information for preparing mink skins. wildlife Home FAQ Site Index.ADF G - wildlife Conservation. www.wildlife.alaska.gov http://www.wildlife.alaska.gov/index.cfm?adfg=trapping.mink

97. Minks From Fur Farms Ravage UK Wildlife On the Uists, the balance of wildlife has remained intactÑuntil now. But amink raised on a ranch may have one of many colors of fur from pure white http://www.bigcats.org/esa/mink7.html

Report from Chris Smith Minks From Fur Farms Ravage U.K. Wildlife By Andrew Morgan in the Daily Telegraph (London), 5 th November, 2001 The raw and beautiful landscape of the treeless Hebridean island of North Uist is host to some of the country's most remarkable wildlife. Thousands of people come each year just to see the bird populations. However, the local economy is now under threat from that vicious invader - the mink. In the Western Isles, it attacks terns and gulls, eating both eggs and chicks. Coot and little grebe are no longer found and there is concern over the loss of corncrake - one of Europe's rarest birds. Its effects are so devastating that Britain's biggest eradication program, costing 1.65 million pounds (U.S. $2.5 million), is to begin later this month. And not before time, argue the locals: These ruthless killers are spreading. They have been wreaking havoc on the nearby islands of Harris and Lewis since the 1960s, escapees from the islands' fur farms. Two years ago, mink were found to have swum across the Sound of Harris, island-hopping to North Uist before moving to Benbecula. They may even have reached South Uist. The problem is not confined to Scotland. The English mink population is rapidly increasing, and will only be exacerbated by the release last week of about 100 mink from a fur farm, previously targeted by animal-rights activists, in the New Forest. In England, mink are responsible for the dramatic decline of several species, particularly water vole. One recent reintroduction of 12 voles at a top-secret wetland site came to grief when a single mink killed them all.

98. Mink (Mustela Vison) .......mink Order Carnivora Family Mustelidae Mustela vison Schreber. mink (Mustelavison). Photo by Donald F. Hoffmeister, courtesy of Museum http://www.nsrl.ttu.edu/tmot1/mustviso.htm

The Mammals of Texas - Online Edition Mink Order Carnivora : Family Mustelidae : Mustela vison Schreber Description. A weasel-like carnivore about the size of a house cat and semiaquatic in habit; general color dark chocolate brown, darkest on back, and nearly black on feet and end of tail; underparts paler than back, with considerable white on midline from chin to vent; neck long, head hardly larger around than neck; tail long and moderately bushy; eyes and ears small; legs short; pelage soft and dense, overlaid with longer, blackish guard hairs. Dental formula as in the weasel . External measurements of an adult male: total length, 560 mm; tail, 190 mm; hind foot, 67 mm; of a female, 540-180-60 mm. Weight (males), 680-1,300 g; (females), 450-700 g. Distribution in Texas. Known from eastern one-half of state westward to northern Panhandle in habitats near permanent water. Habits.

99. Oiled Wildlife Care Network (OWCN): Past Research Projects Funded By OWCN UC Davis, Effect of petroleum oil on immune competence in wildlife Studies withmink as a model for petroleum oil exposure in sea otters. Scott Newman http://www.vetmed.ucdavis.edu/owcn/pastresearch.cfm

HOME RESPONSE RESEARCH REACHING OUT Past Research The primary scope of OWCN's Research and Technology Development program is focused on improving the understanding of how oil affects wildlife species and how best to minimize problems associated with exposure to these products. In the past 7 years, the OWCN has awarded funds for 50 grants totaling over $1.5 million. The OWCN believes that in order to obtain best achievable care for oiled wildlife, it is necessary to encourage research that addresses the areas of improvement of oil spill wildlife rehabilitation and the adverse impacts on the environment and public health. Here are some projects that have been funded in the past: Mark Colwell Humboldt State University Assessing patterns of shorebird roost site fidelity with radio-marked dunlins (Calidris alpina) Mark Colwell Humboldt State University Spatial Ecology of a marked population of the Western snowy plover (Charadrius alexandrinus nivosus) Verena Gill Prevalence of infectious disease as a cause of mortality in northern sea otters (Enhydra lutris kenyoni) in Alaska James Harvey Moss Landing Marine Laboratories Shawn Johnson Alaska SeaLife Center Evaluation of an automated hemoglobinometer in seabirds James Lovvorn University of Wyoming F. Charles Mohr

100. Index 02: Links To Filming Sites wildlife IMAGES FROM VIDEO. IMAGES OF THINGS THAT FLY. Birds Damsels Dragonflies Honey Bee. IMAGES OF THINGS THAT DON T http://www.angelfire.com/wa/minkgi/index2.html

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