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 ...

Around 15,000 animals are to be culled at a poultry farm in southern-Germany after the country's leading animal disease centre confirmed the spread of bird flu, the Ministry of Agriculture in the ...

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.

Despite a permit calling for a wolf in Germany to be culled, the wolf outsmarted hunters and disappeared before it could be killed.

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 ...