What do the parties in Brandenburg say on the environment and animal welfare?

The AfD wants to protect plants and animals by building on the existing concepts for protected areas. Nature protection should be graduated, apply across the whole landscape and involve everyone affected. The party rejects large wilderness areas in state-owned forest.

The AfD wants to protect animals and plants in Brandenburg. To do so, it wants to build on today's protected areas. Nature protection should matter everywhere. The AfD does not want large wilderness areas in the state's forest.

The AfD rejects rewetting peatlands on a large scale. Water levels on peat soils should instead be regulated through orderly water retention under the technical supervision of the counties. The platform warns that farmers could lose their land for good.

The AfD does not want to make large peatlands wet again. It says farmers would lose their meadows forever. The counties should control the water levels on peat soils.

The AfD wants to stabilize the landscape's water balance and secure the drinking water supply. To that end, the state water law is to regulate water management comprehensively and uniformly for all of Brandenburg.

The AfD wants to secure water in Brandenburg. One law should set the same rules for the whole state. Drinking water should always come first.

The AfD wants to largely stop the sealing of land and above all protect farmland from being built over. Unused military sites and industrial ruins are to be dismantled so that, on balance, more land is unsealed than sealed.

The AfD wants less ground to be built over. Farmland above all should stay open. The AfD wants to tear down old military sites and ruined factories. In the end there should be more open ground.

The AfD wants to promote species-appropriate housing systems for farm animals and strictly enforce animal welfare laws. It calls for regular inspections, mandatory labeling of how animals are kept, and short trips to the slaughterhouse.

The AfD wants farm animals to live better. Farmers should get money for good housing. Official vets should check farms regularly. Products should show how the animals were kept.

The AfD wants forests to remain in commercial use, including for energy from wood, and is critical of plans to set aside thousands of hectares of state forest as wilderness. Small private forest owners are to get more support.

The AfD wants to keep using the forest. Leftover wood should also be used for heating. The AfD is critical of large wilderness areas in the state's forest. Owners of small forests should get more help.

The AfD wants to create 30 additional project positions for ten years at the state forestry enterprise Landesbetrieb Forst Brandenburg, because more than half its staff will soon retire. More money should also go into forest conversion and high-quality seed and planting stock.

Many foresters in Brandenburg will retire soon. So the AfD wants to create 30 new jobs for ten years. The state should spend more on converting forests. There should also be more good seed for trees.

The AfD wants to actively regulate the wolf population and bring the wolf under hunting law to do so. It points to the sharply grown population and conflicts with grazing livestock. It rejects changes to hunting law that it regards as hostile to hunting.

There are more and more wolves in Brandenburg. The AfD wants hunters to be allowed to hunt wolves. It wants to protect sheep and other grazing animals this way. Otherwise, hunting law should stay as it is.

The BSW demands that Brandenburg immediately develop a strategy for water supply across the state. The reason is the conflict between the high water demand of large industrial sites and supply for the population.

The BSW wants a plan for water in all of Brandenburg. Big factories like Tesla need a lot of water. At the same time, water is getting scarce for people. The state should make the plan quickly.

The CDU wants to actively limit the wolf population in Brandenburg as soon as the law allows. In its view, with around 1,000 wolves the population has exceeded a favorable conservation status, and damage to livestock farmers has become excessive.

About 1,000 wolves live in Brandenburg. The CDU thinks that is too many. Wolves attack farm animals. So hunters should be allowed to shoot wolves. This should happen as soon as the law allows it.

The CDU sees hunting and fishing as a contribution to nature conservation and wants to strengthen both. Hunters are to play a bigger role in wildlife management and invasive species are to be hunted more intensively, while fishers are to be allowed to remove protected species more easily.

The CDU thinks hunters and fishers protect nature. It wants to support both. Foreign animal species should be hunted more. Fishers should be allowed to kill some protected animals more easily. Examples are cormorants and beavers.

The CDU wants to manage forests actively and sustainably and improve their condition. Renewable raw materials such as wood, hemp, and reeds are to be used more through a bioeconomy strategy, for example in timber construction.

The CDU wants to keep using the forests. At the same time, they should get healthier. Wood may also be burned for energy. Wood, hemp, and reeds should be used more. For example, to build houses.

The CDU wants to preserve allotment gardens in towns because, in its view, they provide recreation, local food, and habitat for wildlife. More funding is to be made available for them.

Almost 100,000 people in Brandenburg use small community gardens. The CDU wants to keep these gardens. They are good for nature and relaxing. There should be more money for them.

The CDU wants to tackle flood protection, water retention, and groundwater recharge together, since climate change and higher consumption are making water scarcer. In Lusatia, the Spree, Neisse, and Black Elster rivers are to be stabilized technically after damage from mining.

Water in Brandenburg is getting scarcer. The CDU wants to manage water better. Water should stay in the landscape longer. Cleaned wastewater should be used again. In Lusatia, rivers should be stabilized after mining.

The SPD wants to make water a priority of state policy and bring the related strategies together centrally. The aim is to hold water across the land, renew installations and better protect waters and fish.

The SPD wants to take great care of water. Water should stay in the land longer. To do this, it wants to renew and build ditches, reservoirs and weirs. It also wants to protect rivers, lakes and fish better.

The SPD wants to strengthen the Lower Oder Valley National Park, promote biodiversity in towns, and preserve and replant tree-lined avenues. Operators of power plants and open-pit mines are to keep paying for restoring mining land in Lusatia.

The SPD wants to protect nature better. A national park should get more powers. More species should be able to live in parks and gardens. Coal companies should pay themselves to restore old mining land.

The SPD considers the current wolf rules unsuitable for protecting grazing animals and regulating the population, and calls for an approach geared to population size. It also wants to convert forests to more mixed woodland and clearly reduce game numbers in some places.

The SPD wants new rules for the wolf. It says today's rules do not protect sheep and cattle well enough. Forests should get more kinds of trees. In some places there should be fewer wild animals.