Etiket: Animal welfare

San Mueang spent most of his life chained in a zoo in Thailand. Until a club from Munich bought him out. A conversation about what elephants really need – and…

Environmental organizations rate the first results of the biodiversity conference in China largely positive. That is quite remarkable. It is not uncommon in the past that politicians have patted each…

Farmers in Bavaria fear for their grazing animals and demand that the protection of the wolf be reduced. According to the Bavarian Farmers’ Association (BBV), around 1,500 farmers demonstrated on…

The fate of the meerkats in Hellabrunn Zoo temporarily pushed the general election out of the news at the weekend. On the SZ homepage, the tragic death of the four…

British photographers Tom Sullam and Paul Joynson-Hicks find the destruction of nature so howling that they launched a competition for funny animal photos a few years ago. Environmental protection and…

Johann Waldschütz’s farm is an Upper Bavarian idyll. The oldest parts of the dashing Einfirsthof on the outskirts of Miesbach date back to the late 16th century. This is exactly…

Cables on the head of a monkey, mice in a labyrinth or rats with a syringe: such images of animal experiments hardly leave anyone untouched. So recently in Tübingen: Researchers…

Do animals have consciousness? What are their rights? In “Gunda” Victor Kossakovsky impressively shows the everyday life of a sow – the meat industry should not like that. . Source…

Wolfgang Schreil went from being an outsider to being an ambassador for his homeland as “Woid Woife”: with books, appearances on television and guided tours through the Bavarian Forest. But…

Of Oliver Das Gupta Vienna is a world metropolis, and quite a few of its residents consider even smaller cities to be provinces. In addition to all the tourists, some…

It has been a few weeks since police officers and official veterinarians discovered the carcasses of 150 beef cattle after an anonymous tip on a farm near Rothenburg ob der…

To protect Australia’s wildlife, ecologists are poisoning foxes, feral cats and other introduced species. But the toxin used kills slowly and painfully. Why is this allowed? Australia is famous for…

Then he’ll be gone, the turnstone. Probably forever. The pretty beach bird no longer exists in Germany. The sucker falcon is also history: in the new Red List of breeding…