Conservationists say that habitat loss, predation by American mink and changeable weather are to blame.

Aleutian mink disease virus (AMDV) can cause severe immune-complex-mediated disease in American mink.

Scientists have carried out one of the largest ever eradications of an invasive species - the American mink.

But the sharpest declines in the past 30 years have been caused by the spread of the American mink.

European mink were taken to two Estonian islands free from the threat of their predatory competitor, the American mink.

Some of Ireland's best-loved wild birds are fast disappearing - and the voracious American mink is to blame, say naturalists.

Many experts see American mink as a pest that is wreaking havoc on native wildlife, in particular the endangered water vole.

Stoats can have the same kind of boldness, but fail to raise the bile engendered by Mustela vison, the feral American mink.

It's not so long since anglers and bird-lovers in Ireland expressed worries about the spread of the same animal, the American mink, from farms here.

A project to eradicate the American mink from an area of north Kent has been given the go-ahead and £100,000 funding.

Directional left-sided asymmetry of the adrenals was typical of black and silver foxes, American minks, and gray rats selected by their behavior.