Tag: Animal welfare
Quiet Europe: The continent is losing its birds – knowledge
In Europe, there is evidently a historic decline in birds. According to a study by an international team of scientists, the EU countries and Great Britain lost almost every fifth…
Animals like elephants should be able to claim fundamental rights in court – knowledge
Man is a strange animal. He builds skyscrapers, flies to the moon and communicates in highly complex languages. From his admittedly impressive abilities, he derives the claim to be better…
Animal Welfare: Knight of the Coconut Economy
Moral issues often depend on the point of view from which one looks at the world. Wherever Suthipong Nakwichian, 59, says, he is an animal lover. His five-year-old monkey, Khun…
California: police save fur seal baby – panorama
Fur seals, aren’t they long-bearded men with pipes in the corner of their mouths? Yes, yes, but fur seals can also be small and fluffy – and keep the police…
Horse and man: where and when the animals were once tamed – knowledge
Every relationship is good when it has a founding myth. So you can keep telling yourself how it all began and strengthen the connection. In the relationship between humans and…
Munich donation campaign: bull elephant rescued from zoo in Phuket – Munich
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…
China: States want to fight against species extinction – politics
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’ Association: Reduce the protection status of the wolf – Bavaria
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…
Bundestag election in the district – Left on the way to the small party – District of Munich
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…
Funny animal photos: “Our brain humanizes the animals” – Panorama
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…