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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...