Germany prides itself on its high animal welfare standards, enshrined as a national objective in its constitution since 2002. Yet animal welfare organizations fear the government is stepping back from ...

Germany is a country of animal lovers, but shelters have to take in over 300,000 abandoned pets each yearVictor Weitz/DW A white-handed gibbon, native to the tropical rainforests of Southeast Asia and ...

Germany’s new government plans this year to introduce proposals for a state system to label meat in shops produced with improved animal welfare, German agriculture minister Cem Oezdemir said on ...

BERLIN, Nov. 3 (Xinhua) -- The Friedrich Loeffler Institute (FLI), Germany's federal animal health agency, said on Monday that almost one million animals have been culled in Germany to contain the ...

BERLIN (AP) — Cases of people hoarding cats, dogs and other living creatures in Germany reached a 10-year high in 2021, the country’s Animal Protection Association said today. The association said it ...

BERLIN (AP) — Animal transports were banned in a state surrounding Berlin on Saturday and the capital's two zoos closed as a precaution after foot-and-mouth disease was detected in a buffalo herd just ...