Content by tag : Animal welfare
The operator of horse-drawn carriages in Brussels has stopped its services for a few days because of the hot weather.
Animal rights organisation Gaia is taking its shocking pink catmobile around Flanders this summer to raise awareness about cat sterilisation, and to remind people that such operations are no
Flemish animal welfare minister Ben Weyts has delivered sharp criticism in response to Planckendael animal park’s decision to shoot a lion that had escaped from its enclosure.
Both Delhaize and Colruyt supermarket chains have put a temporary stop on deliveries from the Spanish pork giant El Pozo after shocking photos of animal abuse emerged this week.
The Prince Laurent Foundation has chosen Cali (pictured) as this year’s Nicest Zinneke.
About 600 people on Sunday participated in a march to demand the closure of all Brussels slaughterhouses, writes news website 7sur7.
Flemish minister for animal welfare Ben Weyts wants to see repeat animal abusers sent to prison, he told VTM News.
All slaughterhouses in Flanders are to be equipped with camera surveillance systems, as one of the measures taken to improve animal welfare in slaughterhouses, report various media.
Bianca Debaets, the Brussels secretary of state responsible for animal welfare, is working to ban the use of fairground ponies in the Brussels-Capital Region.
