Germany is set to be the first country to ban
mass shredding of male chicks in the poultry industry, the government said
Wednesday after approving a draft law on the controversial practice.
An animal rights activist was sentenced to a year's probation on Thursday after a demonstration gone wrong caused injury to two children at a pony carousel.
Zookeepers are being accused of abusing young elephants in Hanover after activists caught them on film hitting the animals, public broadcaster ARD reports.
An animal protection group has started deploying their own “fur police” in big German cities to inform people about what their clothes are made of. But at least one real police department isn’t too pleased about their new imitators.
A court in western Germany said on Friday that there was no legal obstacle to the practice of shredding male chicks shortly after they are hatched, in a big setback for animal rights activists.
The German government has decided it prefers a voluntary agreement with chicken farmers to binding legal rules to stop the practice of shredding male chicks.
There were hectic scenes in eastern Bavaria on Monday, as the circus which owns Germany's last travelling bear tried to hide the animal from police - but to no avail.
Thousands of Berliners have signed a petition to keep a police dog together with his handler after finding out that the two were going to be separated.
Berliners were outraged this week after it emerged that some tourist souvenir stands are selling hats made of dog fur. The Local headed to sightseeing hotspots to investigate.
Hesse environment minister Priska Hinz said on Tuesday that the state would ban circuses from keeping wild animals and push for a nationwide stop to the practice, after an escaped elephant killed a pensioner on Saturday.
The widow of a farmer killed by one of his bulls earlier this month is suing an animal rights group that used an image of her deceased husband for slandering the memory of the dead, it was reported on Wednesday.
Friedrich Mülln has been dragged through the courts and threatened with murder during his years of animal rights activism. His latest court case was in Munich this week but he tells The Local he has no plans to give up the fight.
One of Berlin’s two famous bears living in a controversial compound in the centre of the city has died. Maxi was 27 years old and had become a symbol of Berlin.
Pregnant sows kept alone in small cages for months, unable to lie down or turn around: the EU estimates a third of German pig farmers are not observing its animal protection laws.
German parliament has passed a law making bestiality illegal, while at the same time continuing to allow farming practices such as branding horses and castrating pigs without anaesthetic, to the anger of animal rights activists.
A German ban of an animal cruelty campaign which set images of abused animals next to photographs of people in Holocaust death camps, has been upheld unanimously by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR).
A dispute over foie gras has reached the highest levels of Franco-German ties after a Cologne food fair said the controversial French delicacy will not be allowed.
Man sells sausage. Vegan pushes man. Dog bites man. A bizarre scuffle between animal rights activists and a Berlin bratwurst seller on Saturday was settled abruptly by the intervention of a German shepherd.
German poultry farmers are launching an image campaign to counter increasing opposition to the methods they use to produce the average 18.6 kilos of poultry each German eats per year.
Delmenhorst recently became the second German city to require the sterilisation of all outdoor cats in hopes of reducing its neglected feral feline population. The move could start a trend in a country where pets are infrequently spayed or neutered.
German poultry producer Wiesenhof has been accused of gravely mistreating thousands of chickens and violating animal protection laws, but the company alleges that activists actually encouraged the abuse.
