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 ...
German nature specialist Markus Port loves his job protecting the lynx. "It's a great feeling when you open the door and release the animal into the vastness of the Thuringian Forest," he says of the ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A dog in a shelter waits to be adopted. bojanstory/iStock.com/dpa "It's a rescue." That's ...
PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — A lion and bear rescued from captivity in northern Albania arrived in animal sanctuaries in Germany in early December after authorities in Tirana discovered they were being ...
As Germans ready to set off more than 40,000 tonnes of pyrotechnics on New Year's Eve, Anja Gerauer is plotting her escape, hoping to shield her dog Joy from a night of noisy trauma. Like hundreds of ...
A lion and a bear, rescued from illegal captivity in northern Albania, have begun new lives in German animal sanctuaries following their discovery by authorities in Tirana. Erion, a three-year-old ...
Two recent examples of zoos in the news raise serious questions about the troubling nature of human-animal relationships. A few days ago, we learned that Germany's Tiergarten Nurnberg zoo killed 12 ...