What do the parties in Rhineland-Palatinate say on the environment and animal welfare?

The AfD wants to allow no new wind turbines in state-owned forest and to encourage private and municipal forest owners to refrain voluntarily. Operators would also have to financially guarantee the complete removal of old turbines, including foundations.

The AfD wants no new wind turbines in the state's forest. Other forest owners should give them up by choice. Old turbines should be removed fully. The operators should pay for this, not taxpayers.

The AfD calls for active wolf management with population control to protect grazing animals. The yearly increase is to be hunted and problem wolves killed. The party considers the lowered protection status and the wolf's inclusion in state hunting law insufficient.

Wolves kill sheep and other animals in pastures. The AfD wants hunters to be allowed to shoot wolves. The number of wolves should stop growing. Wolves that cause problems should be killed.

The AfD wants to give animal shelters considerably more state money so that intake freezes end. Municipalities are to get state help in adopting cat protection ordinances, with uniform rules across the state. Online trade in pets and exotic animals is also to be regulated.

Animal shelters do not have enough money. The AfD wants to give them much more state money. Towns should get help with rules for cats. Selling animals on the internet should have stricter rules.

The AfD wants research to do without animal testing in the long run and will fund alternative methods to that end. Where animal tests are used for products, consumers should be able to see this. The state is to monitor animal experiments more closely.

Animals suffer in animal tests. The AfD wants research to manage without animal tests one day. It wants to fund other methods. Buyers should learn whether a product was tested on animals.

The AfD wants to fund humane husbandry systems for farm animals, including year-round grazing. It favors regional slaughter, including slaughter on pasture, and wants to stop long transports of live animals. Maximum transport times are to be set by law.

Farm animals should have more space and time outdoors. The AfD wants to support this kind of farming. Animals should be slaughtered close by. Long trips with live animals should stop. A law should set the longest travel time allowed.

The AfD wants to undo the revision of the state hunting law and redraft it together with hunters. Hunters are to hunt on their own responsibility without state culling requirements. The municipal hunting tax is also to go, with the state compensating for lost revenue.

The state has a new hunting law. The AfD wants to take this law back. It wants to write a different law together with hunters. Hunters should decide for themselves how they hunt. The hunting tax should be dropped.

The AfD wants to prioritize flood protection. It plans early warning systems, stormwater retention basins, infiltration areas in new housing developments and the restoration of rivers and streams to a natural state.

The AfD wants to protect the state better against floods. There should be new warning systems. Basins should hold back rainwater. In new housing areas, water should be able to soak into the ground. Rivers and streams should become more natural again.

The AfD wants to replant forest areas left bare by storms and pests with climate-adapted mixed woodland. It also rejects what it sees as excessive certification requirements for forestry operations.

Storms and pests have destroyed many forests. The AfD wants to plant new trees there. These should be mixed forests that suit the climate. Forestry businesses should have to provide fewer certificates.

The AfD wants to support beekeepers with subsidies and make fighting the Asian hornet a state responsibility. Beyond that, introduced plant and animal species are to be pushed back in order to protect native ones.

The AfD wants to give money to beekeepers. The state should fight the Asian hornet because it harms bees. Other foreign plants and animals should also be pushed back. This is how the AfD wants to protect native species.

The CDU wants to amend the state hunting law, which it says was passed against hunters' interests. It backs adding the wolf to hunting law and wants to lower the protection status of other species with sharply increased populations, such as the rook.

The CDU wants to change the state hunting law. It says the law is bad for hunters. Hunters should also be allowed to hunt wolves. Some animals, like the rook, should be less strictly protected.

The CDU wants to set up mandatory water associations statewide in which upstream and downstream communities jointly organize their water management. Rainwater, especially in winter, would be held back in basins and reservoirs. The platform cites longer dry spells and more heavy rain due to climate change.

Water is getting scarcer. There is also more heavy rain. So the CDU wants to make water associations mandatory. Towns on the same river plan together there. Winter rain should be stored. Flood protection should get better.

The CDU wants to convert forests into climate-resilient mixed woodland and improve wildfire protection. New building and commercial land would be designated sparingly, and towns and cities would get more greenery. The platform recognizes wood as a climate-neutral, renewable energy source.

Forests suffer from drought. So the CDU wants more mixed forests. Protection against forest fires should improve. Less new land should be used for building. Cities should get more trees and green roofs.

The Greens want stronger protection for species and habitats, guided by the EU Nature Restoration Law. Protected areas are to be upgraded, expanded and linked together. Nature conservation stations would be set up across the state.

The Greens want to protect animals and plants better. Protected areas should grow and be linked to each other. Farmers in nature reserves should farm organically. There should be conservation stations all over the state. Experts there work together with towns and farmers.

The Greens want to curb the spread of PFAS, pesticides, antibiotics and other problematic chemicals, relying on the precautionary and polluter-pays principles. Inspection and monitoring programs are to continue and grow. Municipalities would get help with packaging taxes and reusable container systems.

The Greens want fewer harmful chemicals in the environment. These include pesticides, for example. Pesticides are products used against pests. Whoever pollutes should pay for the cleanup. Towns should be able to tax packaging.

The Greens want to convert forests into near-natural, climate-stable mixed woodland and keep more water in the forest. New natural forest reserves are to be created and the national park strengthened. The forestry administration is to attract skilled staff and become climate neutral.

The Greens want to protect the forests. Many different trees should grow in the forest. Such forests cope better with heat and drought. Some forests should develop with no human interference. The national park should get more services.

The Greens want to give rivers more room, hold water back in the landscape and organize flood protection across municipal borders. A climate adaptation law would support municipalities and farmers in adapting. Drinking water supply and wastewater treatment plants are to be modernized.

The Greens want better protection against floods. Rivers and streams should get more room. Then water can spread out during a flood. A new law should help towns adapt to the climate. Drinking water should also stay safe.

The Greens want more support for animal shelters, wildlife centers and animal welfare groups, along with clearer rules for keeping animals. These include a competence certificate for first-time dog owners and a ban on dangerous exotic animals in private hands. A new state animal welfare commissioner would be created.

The Greens want to help animal shelters more. First-time dog owners should prove they know how to keep a dog. Every new dog should have insurance. Dangerous animals like venomous snakes should be banned in private homes. The state should get an animal welfare commissioner.

The Greens want to reduce private fireworks to ease the burden on people, animals and the environment. Cities and towns should be able to designate fireworks-free zones on a secure legal footing. Nationwide, the party favors a year-round ban on sales for private use.

The Greens want fewer private fireworks. They say fireworks are hard on people, animals and the environment. Cities should be able to ban fireworks in certain places. Ideally, no one could buy fireworks for private use anymore. That should apply all over Germany.

The Greens want to bring land consumption down step by step to net zero and below one hectare by 2030. Existing sites and town centers are to take priority over new development on the outskirts. A land agency and an unsealing campaign are meant to help.

The Greens want less new land to be built on. By 2030, land use should be below one hectare. Empty buildings and old business sites should be used first. Paved ground should be opened up again. A new agency should advise towns on this.

The Greens want to improve animal welfare in agriculture and name the end of industrial factory farming as their goal. Instead, husbandry with outdoor access and grazing is to be supported.

The Greens want to protect farm animals better. They want to end factory farming. Animals should have room to move and go out to pasture. Farms with animals should be inspected more often. There should be stricter rules for transporting animals.

The Greens want to move step by step toward a circular economy and use more recycled materials, especially in construction. The program justifies this with more resilient supply chains, geopolitical independence and industrial strength.

The Greens want materials to be reused more often. This is called a circular economy. Public offices should buy more recycled material. Waste should be collected separately more carefully. Organic waste should also be turned into energy.

The SPD wants to significantly expand the reuse of raw materials in the state. In its view this serves climate and resource protection while creating growth and jobs.

The SPD wants materials to be used again more often. This is called a circular economy. It protects the climate and saves raw materials. It should also bring new jobs.

The SPD wants to combine farming and environmental protection through cooperation and strengthen the "Schulterschluss Artenvielfalt" (biodiversity alliance). For water and soil protection, a denser monitoring network is to make the designation of polluted areas more precise.

The SPD wants to bring farming and nature protection together. Farmers and conservationists should work together. There should be more measuring sites for water and soil. This shows more exactly where pollution comes from.

The SPD wants to convert damaged forests into mixed forests that are better adapted to climate change. Forestry is to be transformed in partnership with forest owners, and the Gemeinschaftsforstamt (joint forestry office) is to be kept.

Many forests have suffered from heat and drought. The SPD wants to plant mixed forest there. Mixed forest copes better with the new climate. Forest owners should get help with this. The forestry offices should stay as they are.

The SPD wants to keep promoting timber as a renewable raw material and make forestry more productive through research and practical expertise. The state forest law is to be updated on a scientific basis.

The SPD wants to support wood as a raw material. Wood grows back and creates work in the regions. The law on forests will be updated. Aid for forests in a changing climate will continue.

The SPD wants to put the state-level arrangements in place to actively manage the wolf population. Hunters and others affected are to take part in drafting the new state hunting ordinance.

The wolf is now covered by hunting law. The SPD wants to be able to control the number of wolves in the state. Hunters should have a say in the new hunting rules. Rooks and Egyptian geese should also be hunted in towns.

The SPD wants to step up nature and species protection, relying on cooperation with farming, forestry and municipalities. The state program Aktion Grün is to continue, and the party wants the EU Nature Restoration Regulation applied in a practical way with reliable funding.

The SPD wants to protect nature better. Farmers, foresters and conservation groups should work together. The Aktion Grün program will continue. Nature parks and the national park will get more money.

The SPD wants to continue the state's Zukunftsplan Wasser (future water plan), support municipalities with investments against floods and heavy rain, and push at federal level for natural hazard insurance. Municipalities are also to get help greening town centers and redesigning them on the sponge city principle.

The SPD wants to keep drinking water safe. Towns get money to protect against floods and heavy rain. Cities should become greener and soak up rainwater better. The SPD wants nationwide insurance against damage from natural events.

The SPD wants to expand state support for animal shelters. It also backs a cat protection ordinance that applies across Germany, to improve animal welfare and ease the burden on shelters.

The SPD wants to give animal shelters more help. It also wants a rule to protect cats in all of Germany. This should help the animals. The shelters would then have less strain.