Content by tag : Animal welfare
The Wildlife Rescue Centre in Oudsbergen, Limburg, is well known in Belgium for its expertise in caring for all kinds of critters.
The Brussels Capital-Region has official banned keeping marine mammals, which include seals, sea lions, whales and dolphins.
Eleven of the 16 fur farms in Flanders and the region's only producer of foie gras have announced that they are to close down, Flemish minister of animal welfare Ben Weyts has announced.
A wallaby escaped from its enclosure last Friday and hopped around Genk for a couple of hours before being recovered by its owner.
Bruges' famous swans were all rounded up this week and moved to a more protected environment in response to the bird flu being detected in Ostend.
Over the last two months, an expert from Antwerp Zoo has been working with customs agents and inspectors from the federal public health department to recognise and safely confiscate illegal
Police seized around 30 animals from a so-called educational farm on Rue Saint-Denis on the border between Anderlecht and Forest in Brussels on Tuesday evening.
The numbers are striking: in Belgium alone, 25,000 dogs are taken in by animal shelters each year.
The Brussels regional government has approved a grant of €60,000 for the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) to develop an alternative method to animal testing.
