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 ...

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 ...

An employee of the veterinary office walks across the premises of a poultry farm. Around 85,000 animals on two poultry farms in the district of Märkisch-Oderland have to be killed due to bird flu.

Customs staff revealed on Monday, July 14, that they found the animals at Cologne Bonn airport three weeks ago Hauptzollamt Koeln 1,500 tarantulas were found inside cake boxes at an airport in Germany ...

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 ...

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 ...