BIW on the environment and animal welfare

The BIW wants to end animal testing in the state of Bremen, above all the neurological experiments on monkeys at the University of Bremen. Research methods that do not use animals should be funded instead.

The BIW wants no animal testing in Bremen. Above all, the tests on monkeys at the university should stop. Research without animals should get money. The BIW sees animals as fellow creatures.

The platform notes that animal protection has been a state objective in Bremen's constitution since 1999 and, in the BIW's view, has not been sufficiently put into practice. Animals are to be respected as fellow creatures. At the same time, the BIW rejects what it calls environmental hysteria in the climate debate.

The BIW wants compliance with animal welfare rules checked more often and more strictly for transports, slaughterhouses, circuses, and breeders. The pigeon population downtown is to be managed through supervised pigeon lofts.

The BIW wants more checks to protect animals. This applies to animal transport and slaughterhouses. It also applies to circuses and breeders. People who break the rules should face strict penalties. Pigeons should get supervised lofts at the edge of the city.

Checks are to cover the transport, loading, and unloading of animals for slaughter to prevent unnecessary suffering. Visiting circuses and show operators with animals should be inspected more strictly. Commercial and private pet breeding should be checked regularly, with strict penalties for violations. Supervised lofts on the outskirts are meant to limit pigeon numbers in a humane way; the feeding ban downtown is to be enforced.

The BIW wants to scrap the dog tax and revise Bremen's dog owner law along the lines of Lower Saxony's. The list of breeds classified as dangerous would be dropped, and dogs would get more off-leash areas.

The BIW wants to end the dog tax. It thinks this tax is unfair. The law for dog owners should be rewritten. The list of dangerous dog breeds should go. Dogs should get more areas where they can run without a leash.

The platform considers the tax outdated because it burdens owners of only one kind of animal and has not worked as a steering tool. In the BIW's view, the breed list in section 1(3) of the dog owner law places certain breeds under blanket suspicion without regard to an individual animal's behavior. Bremen is to get additional off-leash areas. In Bremerhaven, existing areas should grow and the extended leash requirement should be reversed.