AfD on the environment and animal welfare

The AfD wants to remove the legal exemptions for ritual slaughter without stunning on religious grounds. Live animal transports and animal testing should be reduced, while modern barns should be approved faster.

In ritual slaughter, animals are killed without being stunned. The AfD wants to ban this with no exceptions. Fewer live animals should be transported. There should also be less animal testing.

Illegal slaughter should be prosecuted more strongly and the origin of halal meat checked more strictly. The party wants to restrict exports of animals for slaughter to countries with proven animal welfare violations. Barns should be approved within a few months and without requirements it considers excessive, so that investment in better animal housing is not held back. The platform regards animal testing as necessary in principle but wants to reduce it for projects of low clinical relevance and fund alternative methods more.

The AfD wants to provide more money for dealing with forest damage and for reforestation. It opposes wind turbines on forest land to protect wildlife, and it demands a cap on the wolf population.

Many forests in the state are damaged. The AfD wants to give more money for new trees. There should be no wind turbines in forests. The number of wolves should be limited.

The deadline for reforestation is to be extended by law to five years. Young trees should be better protected from browsing by wildlife, pests monitored more closely and tree protection products made easier to use. The platform sees hunting as part of nature and species conservation; damage caused by wildlife should be compensated quickly in cash. Besides a cap, the party also demands wolf-free zones. Invasive species and native poisonous plants such as ragwort should be pushed back.