White-tailed eagle known to prey on the critically endangered, native European mink ("Mustela lutreola") (perhaps due to its shier habits) which the American mink are known to have been outcompeting in some areas (but the European has mainly declined due to massive overhunting by humans as a furbearer). Kits of larger mammals such as Eurasian ("Castor fiber") and North American beavers ("Castor canadensis") (introduced) and of European badger ("Meles meles") have been found as prey. The most widely reported mammalian prey known (albeit usually as a supplemental prey species) in the non-native muskrat ("Ondatra zibethicus"), which averages about , and may be
Meles Zenawi change since 2009 and was a 'friend of the Chair' at the 15th Conference of the Parties (COP15) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). On 31 August 2009, Meles was appointed Chair of the African Heads of State and Government on Climate Change (CAHOSCC). The group had been established following the 4 February 2009 decision at the 12th AU Assembly of Heads of States to build a common Africa position on climate change in preparations for COP15.Prior to Meles' appointment, but in light of the AU's decision and the Algiers Declaration on the African Common Platform