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KU Leuven’s experiments on monkeys are inhumane, says the Belgian branch of campaign group Animal Rights, which took part in a protest outside the Flemish university on Thursday.
Dozens of dead pigeons have been found twice in as many weeks in and around the little park at Place Fernand Cocq. The park is across the street from Ixelles’ town hall.
Not only were human beings affected by this month's intense heatwave: in the town of Wevelgem in West Flanders, hundreds of salamanders sought refuge in the rainwater reservoir of a residential co
Following the deaths of two sheep and a cow this week, the Farmers’ Union is asking that the government closely monitor the whereabouts of the wolves known to be living in Flanders.
As Winston Churchill famously said: “Never let a good crisis go to waste.” Belgian animal welfare organisation Gaia, together with partners worldwide, is calling on international institution
The district of Doel, part of Beveren in East Flanders, has a plague of stray cats and are seeking volunteers to help feed them.
All of Belgium’s supermarket groups have decided to stop selling kangaroo meat. Once current stocks are sold, it will disappear from all of the chains.
The city council of the Brussels commune of Ixelles has decided that schools under its authority will no longer be allowed to organise visits to the Antwerp Zoo, the Planckendael animal park
As Belgium prepares to see in the New Year with a bang, animal rights group Gaia is stepping up its campaign against fireworks.
