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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