Washington, DC—The Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) commends today’s filing of the Mink Facility Disease Prevention Act in Illinois, which would protect public health and human safety by requiring ...

Washington, DC—The Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) commends today’s filing of the Mink Facility Disease Prevention Act, which would end mink farming in Illinois to protect human health. Sponsored by ...

The owner of Tonn's Mink Farm said about 600 of nearly 2,000 released animals remain missing. Dennis Tonn said a trespasser came on his business property and cut fencing to release the animals. Tonn ...

Authorities are scrambling to recover thousands of mink that were released from a Pennsylvania farm. On Sunday morning, one or more suspects broke into a mink farm in Rockefeller Township, about 85 ...

Thousands of mink were released from their cages at a northwestern Ohio farm in an overnight breaking and entering episode, authorities said Tuesday. Between 25,000 and 40,000 mink were let loose ...

Hundreds of mink have been reported dead since being maliciously released from a Northumberland County fur farm on Sunday, Sept. 17. Mark Stahl, a Northumberland County farmer who raises mink for ...

The number of mink on the loose in Northumberland County is likely far fewer than initially reported, according to the Pennsylvania Game Commission, after the animals were set free from a fur farm on ...

Workers at a fur farm in western Wisconsin are trying to recapture thousands of mink that were released last week, apparently during a raid by animal activists, authorities said. The Trempealeau ...

Mink farms threaten to become a source of new coronavirus variants — and an object lesson in how ‘spillback’ can make deadly diseases even deadlier. Credit... Supported by By Sonia Shah Illustrations ...