UK facing Christmas tree shortage because Denmark is fighting against mink

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The UK normally imports around a million trees from Denmark every year – the country that has suffered most from the recent mink outbreak

With many places that would normally sell trees shut due to the lockdown, people have been going online instead.

‘Now, however, with many trees imported from Denmark, which has stopped exporting goods due to the Coronavirus mink cull, suppliers are struggling to get through.Fir trees being grown in York ahead of the Christmas season Earlier this month Denmark decided to cull its entire 17 million strong mink population after it was discovered the animal could be spreading a mutated form of coronavirus.

 

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Shouldn’t be chopping down tree anyway, buy a re-useable tree that can last forever

I am in pain for the minks. What is the point in life if they are just going to be killed. Not a merry Christmas.

Must be millions of forgotten plastic trees in peoples lofts they can use.

should not reward such a brutal country.

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