The environmental authorities of
mink that were buried in dirt pits used as
mass graves in the nationwide
culling of
contaminated groundwater and be a threat to adjacent natural protected areas.
The Environmental Protection Agency of Denmark fears that the contamination in the groundwater can affect lakes and streams nearby.The Danish Parliament wants to establish a fact-finding commission that will investigate the culling and the mass burial.
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Mass culling and burying
The government of Denmark recently directed the culling of approximately 17 million heads of mink last November of this year. This is due to the many outbreaks of the coronavirus that hundreds of mink farms caused. The authorities found the virus in mutated strains present in people, and fears of the spread of a mutated virus sparked the mass culling.
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Concerns mink mass graves in Denmark may have contaminated groundwater
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A Danish mink farmer holds up one of the animals before the cull in November.
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Danish environmental authorities are looking into whether decomposing mink buried in dirt pits following a nationwide cull may have contaminated groundwater and nearby protected nature areas.
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Denmark s Environmental Protection Authority fears contaminated groundwater could migrate to nearby streams or lakes
The country s Parliament is going to establish a commission to investigate the cull and mass burial
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