Very true.

I'm all for preventing animal abuse but releasing them to the wild wasn't the way to go about it, by doing so they've caused far more death and suffering than they prevented (including for the minks which are likely to either cannibalize each other or starve to death)

Haha, As an Australian this gives me a strong sense of deja vu.

For those who may not know, European settlers introduced rabbits for hunting, but they spread quicker than they could hunt so they introduced foxes now over 150 years later both rabbits and foxes are wreaking havok to our environment.

And they didn't learn their lesson so similar thing when they introduced sugar cane, they brought cane beetles with them so later introduced cane toads to eat the beetles so now we have plague proportions of cane toads because all the native animals die when they eat them.