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 ...

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 ...

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 (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 ...

Pedestrians in the German city of Nuremberg made way for hundreds of bleating sheep on Sunday as a flock of the animals was ...

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 ...