Critically EndangeredEuropean Mink
Mustela lutreola
8 countries8 parks
Species group · Mammals
WAnimals has 2 species of mink, in the family Mustelidae.
Ranges calculated from the profiles that record the figure, not from all 2.
Each one has its own full profile. This group does not replace them: it brings them together.
1 species in this group is in a threatened category according to the IUCN.
Recorded in 17 countries. The ones with the most species in the group:
Critically endangered; in Spain it holds on mainly along the middle Ebro, displaced by the American mink.
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It is told apart from the American mink by the white patch on its upper lip: the American mink has one only on the lower lip, and that detail is the key to identification in the field.
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Its decline has a direct culprit: the American mink, escaped from fur farms, which is larger, more aggressive and passes on diseases to it, and which displaces it from riverbanks wherever the two meet.
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It is one of the most problematic invasive species in Europe, and the cause lies in the fur industry: every escape or release from a farm seeds a new wild population.
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Wherever it arrives, colonies of waterbirds that breed on the ground or on islets collapse, because they never evolved defences against a predator that swims and climbs equally well.
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