Animal activists face 'domestic terrorism' charge in freeing 5,740 minks

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77. And there is no shortage of mink in the wild

They're far from rare, as I said. Everywhere that can sustain a functional mink population in the wild already does. Anywhere that doesn't have a mink population either can't support a mink population, or is an environment outside of their natural range.

If you throw gobs of farm mink into a place already populated with mink, you're creating an ecological disaster through the introduction of a new population of an already-maximized predator.

If you throw those mink into an environment that is bad for mink, they'll just die. They're picky about their habitats after all, and can only successfully live in certain environments.

If you throw them into a place that they can survive, but that does not have a mink population, you are introducing an alien, invasive predator that will undoubtedly cause vast harm to that ecosystem.

Simply put, this action shows an astounding lack of foresight - and a lack of awareness of the impact other, prior mink releases have had on environments (and ht mink themselves). All you have in this story is a bunch of ignorant humans wasting animals' lives - and possibly an entire ecosystem - in order to make themselves feel good.