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European mink (豹) once lived well along waterways throughout most of Europe. The fur (皮毛) of this small animal is soft and beautiful. But some people believed the fur of the American mink was better. Fur farmers took thousands of American minks to eastern Europe, and they quickly developed throughout Europe. In the wild, American minks drove the other animals away from the best hunting grounds. Now just a few hundred European minks are left— them Europe’s most enered (濒危) wild life. To save the mink, scientists are trying to keep a certain number living on an island in Baltic Sea. Without help, says David Macdonal of Oxford University’s Wildlife Conservation Research Unit in England, the European mink is "heading for extinction (灭绝).\
DThe writer of the text is asking people to help European mink.