BBC Wildlife Magazine

Animal rights activists are not to blame

THE DECLINE OF THE WATER VOLE IS ALL too often blamed on “overzealous animal rights campaigners” releasing American mink from fur farms – a myth your Vole on a Roll feature sought to perpetuate in the July issue of BBC Wildlife.

American mink were brought to the UK in the 1920s, specifically to farm for their fur, and as long as we’ve had mink, we’ve

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