What do the parties in Baden-Württemberg say on the environment and animal welfare?

In species protection, the CDU wants to focus on preserving the species as a whole rather than the individual animal. Populations of certain species that have grown strongly may be regulated, including by killing, and invasive species are to be fought early.

The CDU wants to protect animal species as a whole. Some animals are now very numerous. These include cormorants, beavers and rooks. It should be allowed to kill some of them. The CDU wants to fight foreign species like raccoons early.

The CDU wants to cut raw material use, avoid waste and keep materials in circulation. It relies on incentives and new technologies rather than additional rules and wants to secure waste disposal in the state for the long term.

The CDU wants to use fewer raw materials. Things should be reused more often. There should be incentives for this, not new strict rules. Waste that cannot be recycled should produce power and heat. Dug-up soil from building sites should be easier to reuse.

The CDU calls for a statewide strategy for drinking and service water supply, with municipalities remaining in charge. Public water supply is to get priority in water law, and water shortages are to be prevented through forward-looking management.

The CDU wants a water plan for the whole state. Cities and towns should stay in charge of drinking water. Every town should have a second water source for emergencies. Public water supply should get priority in the law. The state should act early against water shortages.

The Greens want to preserve the state's nature reserves and the Black Forest National Park. The platform points to the threat facing native wildlife and says there must be places free from human interference.

The Greens want to protect nature in the state. This includes the nature reserves and the Black Forest National Park. Many animals and plants are in danger. Nature needs places where it is left alone.

The Greens want to help companies design products and business models around reuse and recycling. The platform sees this as more than waste management and also justifies it with reduced dependence on raw material imports.

The Greens want people to throw away less. Things should last longer and get repaired. A repair bonus should help with that. Raw materials should be used again.

The Greens want to lower the number of animal experiments and replace them with animal-free methods wherever possible. In the long run, a phase-out of animal testing is to be achieved together with the scientific community.

The Greens want fewer experiments on animals. Researchers should use other methods without animals. The state should give more money for this. One day there should be no more animal testing.

The Greens want to draw up a "Water Supply Strategy 2050" and encourage saving through tiered water pricing. Flood protection and heavy-rain preparedness are also to be strengthened, mainly through nature-based means.

Drinking water should stay safe in the future. The Greens want a plan up to 2050 for this. People who use a lot of water should pay more. Rivers should become more natural again.

The Greens want to increase funding for nature conservation and expand the connected habitat network to 15 percent of the state's area by 2030. Existing species protection programs are to be continued and strengthened.

The Greens want to spend more money on protecting nature. Habitats for animals and plants should be better connected. By 2030 they should cover 15 percent of the state. Programs for endangered species should continue.

The Greens want to create incentives so that peat soils can be farmed without being destroyed. Peatland protection projects are to be carried out faster, including with private money.

Peatlands are wet soils that store a lot of carbon. The Greens want to keep them. Farmers should still be able to work there and earn money. Projects to protect peatlands should move faster.

The Greens want to keep cooperating with grazing livestock keepers on protecting their animals and expand advisory services as widely as possible. Farmers are also to get help against invasive species.

Sheep and other grazing animals need protection from wolves and dogs. The Greens want to give animal keepers more advice. They want to keep working together with them. Farmers should also get help against harmful foreign species.

The Greens want to expand environmental education from daycare to university and make nature accessible to everyone. In addition, the global goal of 30 percent protected areas is to be implemented in the state.

Children and adults should learn more about nature and species. This should happen in daycare, schools and universities. The Greens want more protected areas. Cities should become greener, for example with green schoolyards.

The Greens want to give animal shelters and welfare organizations more financial support and enforce animal welfare law more effectively. Veterinary offices are to get more staff for this.

The Greens want to protect animals better. Animal shelters should get more money. Offices that check on animal welfare should have more staff. Cats that roam outside should be neutered and registered.

The Greens want to phase out the tethering of cattle, whether year-round or seasonal. Housing conditions for farm animals are to be improved overall.

Some cattle stand tied up in the barn. The Greens want to end this step by step. Cattle should have as much room to move as possible. Animals should not go through long transports.

The Greens want to adapt the state hunting and wildlife management law to new findings in wildlife biology, forest conversion and animal welfare. Hunters are to prove their marksmanship in the future.

The Greens want to change the rules for hunting. Hunters should show that they shoot accurately. Wild animals should have safe routes between their areas. There should be a plan against foreign animal species.

The Greens want to continue converting forests into species-rich mixed forests and leave ten percent of the state-owned forest to itself. Private forest owners are to receive advice and funding.

Heat and drought harm the forests. The Greens want forests with many kinds of trees. One tenth of the state's forest should stay untouched. Private forest owners should get help.

The Greens stand by the goal of no additional net land consumption and want to reach it as soon as possible. Development inside existing settlements takes priority: vacant buildings, brownfields and ready-to-build plots should be used before new construction on the outskirts.

The Greens want no more new land to be built over. First, empty buildings and unused plots in town should be used. Only then should building happen at the edge of town. This protects nature and farmland.

The SPD wants to expand the state's biodiversity strategy, rewet peatlands, make forests climate-resilient and increase forest area. It says it relies on participation, compensation and investment rather than bans.

The SPD wants to protect animals and plants better. Peatlands should become wet again. The forest should grow and cope better with heat. People who care for nature should be paid for it. The SPD does not want bans here.

The SPD wants active inspections of animal transports and animal husbandry and a registration requirement for dogs and cats. Animal shelters are to get help housing stray animals through a funding program.

The SPD wants to protect animals better. Authorities should check animal transports and barns more often. Owners should have to register dogs and cats. Animal shelters should get more money.

The SPD wants to enshrine in law that drinking water supply takes priority over industry and irrigation. Water is to remain a public good and the infrastructure is to be made crisis-proof.

The SPD wants drinking water to always come first. This also applies when factories or fields need water. This should be written into law. Water should belong to everyone.