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Mink pelts at Kopenhagen Fur. The mink industry in Denmark produced 40 percent of the world's pelts.Denmark used to be the largest producer of mink skins in the world. [1] [2] Ranked third in Denmark's agricultural export items of animal origin, fur and mink skins have a yearly export value of about €500 million.
The 2020 Danish mink cull was the government-mandated slaughter of all roughly 17 million mink that were being raised on farms for their fur in Denmark.The cull started in September in response to the detection of Cluster 5, an outbreak of a novel variant of SARS-CoV-2, in the mink during the COVID-19 pandemic in Denmark.
Mink colours. Mink have been farmed for fur in the United States for 130 years, though domestic demand for fur started to decline rapidly by the late 1980s. [33] In 2010, the U.S. ranked fifth in production behind Denmark, China, the Netherlands, and Poland. Mink typically breed in March and give birth to their litters in May.
Denmark announced strict new lockdown rules on Thursday in the north of the country after authorities discovered a mutated coronavirus strain in minks bred in the region, prompting a nationwide ...
In November 2020, Denmark, then the world's largest producer of mink fur, slaughtered its entire mink population of 15 to 17 million animals to stop the spread of Cluster 5, a mutated strain of the virus, which has been linked to the animals and resulted in the infection of 12 humans with the mutated variant.
Kopenhagen Fur is the largest fur skin auction company in the world. [1] It is an agribusiness cooperative, located in Langagervej 60, Glostrup, near Copenhagen, Denmark. At peak demand, the company is able to pack and sort 150,000 furs in one day. [2] In 2020, it was reported to be responsible for 40% of global mink fur production. [3]
Mink thrive in, but are not a native to Denmark, and it is considered an invasive species. American Mink are now widespread in Denmark and continues to cause problems for the native wildlife, in particular waterfowl. [107] Denmark also has a small production of fox, chinchilla and rabbit furs. [106]
American mink (Neogale vison) In 2019, Denmark was the largest producer of mink fur in the world, [11] with the vast majority of the Danish farms located in northern and western Jutland. [12] In recent years the industry had generally been in decline in the country. [13]