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European mink (Mustela lutreola)

Approximately only 200-300 individuals of European mink live in Ukraine. In the Zhytomyr region, the number of the species has decreased by four times over the past 50 years. If in 1987 60 minks lived in the lower reaches of the Dniester, by 2000 there were only 10.

Reasons for population decline: intensive changes in wetlands in the process of agricultural and recreational use.
The species is protected in the Danube and Carpathian Biosphere Reserves, in the Lower Dniester National Natural Park and the Kanev State Reserve