What do the parties in Schleswig-Holstein say on the environment and animal welfare?

The CDU wants every person who fishes to have to prove competence as a rule. Exemptions from the exam requirement, such as the tourist fishing license, are to apply only in objectively justified cases. The party cites species protection and animal welfare as the reason.

People who fish should know about fish. They should show this with a test. Today tourists can often fish without a test. The CDU wants to allow such exceptions only rarely.

The CDU commits to the 17 Sustainable Development Goals of the 2030 Agenda and wants to keep measuring state policy against them. It intends to carry out the state's biodiversity strategy, further develop education for sustainable development, and support the EU Green Deal.

The United Nations has 17 goals for a sustainable world. The CDU wants its policy to follow them. It wants to protect the variety of animals and plants. People should learn more about living sustainably.

The CDU wants to implement the state's biodiversity strategy and set aside wilderness areas on 1.4 percent of the state's land by 2030. A scientific advisory board is to advise the state government on environmental policy so that, in the party's view, decisions rest on research and impact assessments.

The CDU wants to protect animals and plants better. By 2030 there should be more wilderness areas. Nature is left alone there. Experts from research should advise the government on protecting the environment.

The CDU wants conservation violations, illegal logging and illegal dumping to be prosecuted more vigorously and punished more heavily. It justifies this with a visible rise in such offenses and the damage they do to nature.

Some people cut down trees illegally or dump trash in nature. The CDU wants to punish this more harshly. The police should be better able to pursue such acts.

The CDU wants new land take in the state to fall to no more than 1.3 hectares per day by 2030 and to reduce soil sealing. At the same time, business siting and growth should remain possible, for example by reusing old sites.

The CDU wants less new land to be built on. By 2030 it should be at most 1.3 hectares a day. Old factories and barracks should be put to new use. Companies should still be able to set up shop.

The CDU wants products to be reused and recycled more, arguing that this avoids waste and CO2 emissions. Recycled plastic is to become more competitive, waste should only go to countries that can process it properly, and trash bins should get uniform colors nationwide.

The CDU wants less trash and more recycling. Recycling means making new things from old ones. Trash bins should have the same colors all over Germany. Trash should only go to countries that can process it well.

The CDU wants to draw up a water strategy for the state that also takes account of climate change effects such as heavy rain and drought. Those who pollute water are to be held more accountable. The aim is clean drinking water and better quality in seas, lakes and rivers.

The CDU wants to make a plan for water in the state. Drinking water should stay clean. Anyone who pollutes water should take responsibility for it. The plan should also consider heavy rain and dry periods.

The CDU wants to step up efforts on old munitions lying in the sea, because they release toxins that endanger marine life. It sees recovery as a task shared by the federal government and all the states.

Old munitions lie in the sea. Poison leaks from them into the water. The CDU wants the munitions taken out of the sea. The federal government and the states should do this together.

The CDU wants to keep funding animal shelters and make neutering of free-roaming stray cats standard practice. It also wants to support projects that prevent the compulsive collecting of pets.

The CDU wants to keep giving money to animal shelters. Cats without owners should be neutered. Some people compulsively keep far too many animals. The CDU wants to support projects that prevent this.

The CDU wants to put an end to the illegal trade in animals. To do so, the platform calls for more inspections, tougher penalties and effective prosecution.

The CDU wants to stop the illegal trade in animals. There should be more inspections. Illegal traders should be punished more harshly. Online trade in animals should also have stricter rules.

The CDU wants to increase forest cover in Schleswig-Holstein to more than twelve percent of the state's area and continue the reforestation programs. The aim is to create species-rich climate forests that withstand extreme weather better. It also wants to examine whether the rule requiring people to stay on forest paths should be reinstated.

The CDU wants more forest in the state. More than twelve percent of the land should be forest. The new forests should have many kinds of trees. That helps them cope with heat and storms. The CDU will also check whether people must stay on paths in the forest.

The CDU wants to place the wolf under hunting law so that quick action is possible in accidents and when people or livestock are in danger. It also wants to create the legal basis for wolf-free zones, especially along coasts and dikes.

The CDU wants wolves to fall under hunting law. Then hunters can help quickly when there is danger. Along coasts and dikes, areas without wolves should be possible. This is how the CDU wants to protect sheep and other grazing animals.

The CDU wants to actively manage goose populations in the state, including through hunting. Farmers are to be able to insure themselves against feeding damage, with the state covering losses the insurance does not pay.

There are many geese in the state. They eat fields bare. The CDU wants hunters to be allowed to shoot geese. Farmers should be able to insure their fields against goose damage. The state pays the rest of the damage.

The CDU sees hunting as active nature conservation and wants to keep the statewide hunting district system as well as hunting in protected areas. Hunting dogs are to be exempt from dog tax and shooting ranges secured. A wildlife corridor plan is to reconnect fragmented habitats.

The CDU says hunting protects nature. Hunters should also be allowed to hunt in protected areas. No one should pay dog tax for hunting dogs. Shooting ranges should stay. Wild animals should get crossings over roads.

The CDU wants less food to end up in the trash, especially in private households. It relies on consumer education, talks with supermarkets and, following the French example, other ways of passing on food that is still edible.

People in Germany throw away a lot of food. The CDU wants to change that. It wants to talk with supermarkets about it. Good food should be passed on instead of thrown away. People should learn to waste less.

The FDP wants to implement the state strategies on biodiversity, biological climate protection and soil protection together with all stakeholders. Private landowners would receive money for creating forest or rewetting peatlands. Underground CO2 storage and fracking should not happen against the will of local residents.

The FDP wants to protect nature together with the people. Landowners who plant forest should get money. The same goes for peatlands that are made wet again. There should be less plastic and less waste. The party wants to strengthen the Wadden Sea National Park.

The FDP wants to fund animal shelters and wildlife rescue stations on a permanent basis and improve animal welfare step by step. It backs uniform European standards for animal husbandry and transport, fewer animal experiments and new rules for pets. Alongside legislation, it stresses the personal responsibility of animal keepers.

The FDP wants to keep giving money to animal shelters. The same strict rules for animals should apply across Europe. There should be fewer experiments on animals. Dogs should be registered. The party rejects break-ins at farms by animal rights groups.

The FDP wants to provide more money for coastal protection, for example for reinforcing dikes, and rejects a coastal protection levy. On water protection it sticks to the existing master plan and wants to secure wastewater facilities for the long term. Ghost nets are to be recovered from the sea.

The FDP wants to spend more money on protecting the coast. For example on stronger dikes. There should be no extra charge for this. Water should become cleaner. Old fishing nets should be taken out of the sea.

The FDP wants the old munitions in the North Sea and Baltic Sea recovered within the next few years because toxic substances are leaking from corroding casings. The federal government should bear the costs, with the state adding funds of its own. Waste oil is to be pumped out of shipwrecks quickly.

A lot of old munitions from the world wars lie in the sea. They rust, and poison gets into the water. The FDP wants them recovered soon. The federal government should pay for this. Oil should also be pumped out of old shipwrecks.

The FDP wants to increase forest cover in Schleswig-Holstein to twelve percent and push for a forest climate premium. It aims for sustainable management that takes both timber use and biodiversity into account, and wants to support forest owners rather than dictate to them.

The FDP wants more forest in Schleswig-Holstein. Twelve percent of the state should be forest. Forests store CO2 and so help the climate. Forest owners should get a payment for this. They should decide themselves which trees to plant.

The FDP rejects stricter rules in hunting and weapons law and wants to keep supporting hunters. Hunting law is to be modernized to strengthen property rights and improve wildlife management. The party sees hunters as partners in nature and species conservation.

The FDP wants no stricter rules for hunting and weapons. Hunters should keep getting support from the state. Shooting ranges should get money and be allowed to stay. Hunters should no longer pay dog tax for hunting dogs. Checks of gun safes should no longer cost anything either.

The Greens want to cut raw material use in construction significantly and build a circular economy. The share of recycled building materials is to rise to at least 70 percent by 2035. The state is to lead the way with its own buildings.

Construction should use fewer new raw materials. Old building materials should be used again. By 2035, at least 70 percent of building materials should come from recycling. Buildings should be repaired, not torn down, where possible. The state should set an example with its own buildings.

The Greens want better protection for trees across the state. Further legal options are to be examined, and every municipality is to have a tree protection ordinance modeled on Hamburg's.

Trees are good for people and the environment. The Greens want to protect trees better. This applies to private and public land. Every town should have its own rules to protect trees.

The Greens want the state to give priority to sustainable products when it buys goods. In the state administration's cafeterias, the share of organic and regional food would keep rising. The program points to the large influence public purchasing has on markets.

The state buys many things. The Greens want it to buy mainly sustainable products. State cafeterias should offer more organic food from the region. The state should not support unfair business.

The Greens want not just to slow species extinction but to reverse the trend. To do so, new protected areas would be created and existing ones enlarged and better managed. The state's biodiversity strategy would be continued and given resources.

Many animal and plant species are dying out. The Greens want to reverse this. There should be more and larger protected areas. Nature agencies should get more resources. Paid rangers should help in these areas.

The Greens want to prohibit pesticide use in protected areas and create pesticide-free buffer zones around them. Uses that conflict with the purpose of protection would be pushed back.

Pesticides are poisons against pests and weeds. The Greens want to ban them in protected areas. There should also be zones without pesticides around these areas. Other uses should not harm nature there.

The Greens want to rewet at least 8,000 hectares of drained peatland in the coming years and protect existing peatlands. The program describes peatlands as natural CO2 sinks, while farmed peat soils are said to be a major source of greenhouse gases.

Peatlands store a lot of CO2. Dry peatlands give off greenhouse gases instead. The Greens want to make at least 8,000 hectares of peatland wet again. They want to protect existing peatlands. Farmers and owners should get help with this.

The Greens want to preserve the state's forests and put ecosystem protection ahead of timber sales in public forests. To that end, the state forest law and the silviculture guideline for the state forestry agency are to be revised.

Schleswig-Holstein has few forests. The Greens want to protect forests better. In state-owned forests, nature should matter more than selling wood. More forest should be left to itself. Old beech forests should no longer be used.

The Greens want to fully implement the EU Water Framework Directive by 2027 and protect groundwater as the basis of the drinking water supply. In areas with high nitrate levels, no further nutrients are to enter the groundwater.

The Greens want to protect lakes, rivers and groundwater better. Drinking water comes from groundwater. In some areas there is too much nitrate in the water. Nitrate comes from fertilizer, for example. No more should be added there.

The Greens want to permanently protect the Grünes Band (Green Belt) along the former inner-German border in Schleswig-Holstein as a National Nature Monument. In addition, Knicks (traditional hedgerows) are to be better protected, and nature parks, another "Integrated Station" on the Baltic coast and local conservation initiatives are to receive support.

The Green Belt lies along the old border with East Germany. Many animals and plants live there. The Greens want to protect it for good. Knicks should also be better protected. Knicks are wild hedges on earth banks. Nature parks should get more help.

The Greens call for areas in which any harm to nature from human use is ruled out, even if it would be offset elsewhere. Violations of conservation laws are to be punished with significantly higher fines, and enforcement gaps are to be closed.

The Greens want areas that are only for nature. Nobody may disturb nature there. People who break nature protection laws should pay higher fines. One example is cutting down forest illegally. Authorities should be able to check better.

The Greens want to reduce new land take for settlements and transport to under 1.3 hectares per day by 2030 and to net zero by 2050 at the latest. To get there, binding annual interim steps are to be written into the regional plans, and trading in land-use certificates is to be introduced.

More and more land is built over for houses and roads. The Greens want to cut this sharply. From 2050, no new land should be built over on balance. There should be fixed rules for every year. Old buildings and empty lots should be used first.

The Greens want to make Schleswig-Holstein a leader in the circular economy, with an action plan, a zero-waste strategy and a dedicated state agency. Exemptions from the deposit requirement in cross-border retail are to be scaled back, and deposit systems are to be extended nationwide.

The Greens want less waste. Materials should be used again and again. There should be a plan and a new state office for this. At the border with Denmark, cans are sold without a deposit. This exception should be reduced.

The Greens want packaging waste collected statewide in recycling bins instead of plastic bags and back a uniform nationwide recycling bin. A funding bonus is planned for repairing electrical appliances and for retrofits.

A lot of plastic waste is burned and not recycled. The Greens want to change this. Packaging should go into a bin instead of yellow bags. Other plastic and metal should go into the bin too. People who have electrical devices repaired should get extra money.

The Greens want to rule out all use on 20 percent of Schleswig-Holstein's Baltic Sea waters by 2030 and to establish a new national park in the Baltic. In the Wadden Sea National Park, economic use is to end on at least half of the area.

The Greens want to protect the North Sea and the Baltic Sea better. There should be a new national park in the Baltic Sea. One fifth of the state's Baltic waters should be left unused. Half of the Wadden Sea park should be free of business use. Seagrass meadows should grow because they store CO2.

The Greens want to reduce plastic in inland waters and the seas and are pushing for a plastic tax in the Bundesrat and at EU level. Microplastics in cosmetics are to be banned comprehensively.

There is a lot of plastic waste in seas, lakes and rivers. The Greens want to change this. There should be a tax on plastic. Tiny plastic particles in cosmetics should be banned. Fishers should no longer lose nets in the sea.

The Greens want funding for efforts to remove abandoned fishing nets from the sea. They also back the federal coalition's plan to ban plastic dolly ropes and promote environmentally sound alternatives.

Old fishing nets drift in the sea. They are called ghost nets. The Greens want money for taking them out. Dolly ropes are plastic threads on fishing nets. The Greens want them banned.

The Greens want old munitions removed from the North Sea and the Baltic. The state is to advance detection, mapping and the development of new recovery techniques, because the platform says the corroding ordnance releases toxic substances.

A lot of old war munitions lie in the sea. They rust and release poison. The poison gets into fish and mussels. The Greens want the munitions taken out. The state should find them and develop new technology.

The Greens want better prevention of animal epidemics and of diseases that can pass to humans. Animal transports are to become fewer and shorter, and research is to be expanded. Reserve antibiotics would be kept for human medicine only.

The Greens want to prevent animal diseases better. Animals should be transported less often and for shorter distances. There should be more research on this. Certain last-resort antibiotics should be only for people.

The Greens want farms and slaughterhouses inspected more often, at least every five years and also without notice. A state animal welfare plan and a specialized prosecutor's office for animal welfare crimes would be added. The platform argues that inspections also protect the reputation of farms that follow the rules.

The Greens want to check farms and slaughterhouses more often. Each farm should be checked every five years. Some checks come without warning. Special prosecutors should handle cruelty to animals.

The Greens want to sharply cut animal experiments in university teaching and replace them with computer simulations where possible. A professorship for animal-free research is to be set up at the university hospital in Kiel or Lübeck. Animal welfare would also get more room in schools and vocational training.

The Greens want fewer experiments on animals at universities. Computers should replace the experiments where possible. A new professor should advance research without animal testing. Children should learn more about animal welfare at school.

The Greens want to stop the illegal online trade in puppies and other pets and to regulate animal marketplaces in general. Selling wild-caught animals would be banned, and dogs and cats would have to be registered and tagged nationwide. Circuses are to operate without wild animals in the future.

The Greens want to stop the illegal sale of puppies online. Nobody should be allowed to sell animals caught in the wild. Dogs and cats should be registered all over Germany. Circuses should no longer have wild animals.

The Greens want to keep raising state funding for animal shelters and wildlife rescue stations and to keep the process simple. The platform cites ongoing financial problems at these facilities, which it says worsened during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Greens want to give animal shelters more money. Stations for injured wild animals should get more money too. Applying should be easy. Many of these places do not have enough money.

The Greens want a fundamental overhaul of the state hunting law and aim to make Schleswig-Holstein a pioneer of ecological hunting. Hunters' interests are to be better reconciled with nature, species and animal protection.

The Greens want to change the state hunting law a lot. Hunting should respect nature and animals more. Hunters should be allowed to hunt fewer kinds of animals. Ammunition should no longer contain lead.

The SPD wants to make greater use of peatlands, forests, grassland and seagrass meadows as natural carbon stores. It plans binding quotas for rewetting peatlands and 2.9 million new trees in the next legislative term. This is also meant to protect species.

Peatlands, forests and meadows store the climate gas CO2. The SPD wants to make drained peatlands wet again. It wants to plant 2.9 million new trees. That is one tree for every person in the state. Seagrass in the Baltic Sea should grow back too.

The SPD calls for a water protection drive because, according to the platform, the goals of the EU Water Framework Directive are being missed. The North Sea and Baltic Sea would be better protected and old munitions safely recovered. Water supply should stay in public hands.

The SPD wants to protect rivers, lakes and seas better. Fewer pollutants should get into the water. Old munitions from wars lie in the sea. The SPD wants to remove them safely. Water should belong to the public, not to private companies.

The SPD wants to counter species loss and implement the state's biodiversity strategy. This includes a larger habitat network, a species protection program and more insect protection. Animal shelters would continue to receive funding.

Many animal and plant species are disappearing. The SPD wants to stop that. It wants to create more protected areas for nature. Children should learn more about biodiversity at school. Animal shelters should keep getting money.

The SPD wants to bring privately run waste and sewage sludge incineration plants back into state ownership. Municipalities would get help with taking them back. Waste should only be burned when recycling and reuse are not better options.

Some waste-burning plants belong to private companies. The SPD wants them to belong to the public again. Waste should only be burned if it cannot be reused. Good filters should protect the environment and neighbors.

The SPD wants to improve animal welfare in livestock farming and backs a mandatory government animal welfare label. A new state veterinary office is meant to ensure uniform standards across the state.

The SPD wants farm animals to be treated better. A required government label should show how animals are kept. There should be a new state office for animal health. This office should set the same rules for all counties.

The SPD wants net land consumption to reach zero by 2050. Land that can no longer be used is to be unsealed to offset new development, and soil is to be protected from erosion and compaction.

The SPD wants to protect the soil. By 2050, no more land should be built over than is freed up. Old, unused paved areas should be opened up again. Parks and community gardens should get funding.

The SSW wants nature conservation planned across state lines, especially for the Lower Elbe. It rejects further dumping of Hamburg harbor sludge in the North Sea, a sludge landfill next to the Wadden Sea, and any further deepening of the Elbe.

Hamburg dumps mud from its harbor into the North Sea. The SSW wants this to stop. It also wants no mud landfill next to the Wadden Sea. The Elbe river should not be made deeper again. The states should plan nature protection together.

The SSW wants to reduce land consumption in order to protect habitats and biodiversity. To do so, the state strategy is to be implemented effectively and Section 13b of the Federal Building Code is to be amended at the federal level.

The SSW wants less natural land to be built on. That way animals and plants keep their habitat. One section of the building law should change. Before building, the effect on the environment should be checked more closely.

The SSW wants to increase the share of forest in Schleswig-Holstein and better protect forests, peatlands, lowlands and grassland. The platform justifies this with their importance for ecosystems and as carbon sinks.

Schleswig-Holstein has little forest. The SSW wants more forest in the state. Forests, peatlands and meadows should be better protected. They store CO2 and help the climate. Citizens should be able to help protect nature too.

The SSW wants to reduce waste and conserve resources. Reusable and deposit systems are to grow, single-use plastic is to disappear, and building materials are to be recycled in the construction industry.

The SSW wants less trash. There should be more reusable containers and deposits. Single-use plastic should no longer exist. Old building materials should be used again. This saves sand and gravel.

The SSW wants to stop plastic from entering waterways and to upgrade wastewater treatment plants for that purpose. The pilot project on the Schlei inlet is to be made permanent and serve as a model for other coastal waters.

The SSW wants no plastic in rivers, lakes and the sea. Sewage plants should get better filters. The filters should also catch very small bits of plastic. A protection project at the Schlei inlet should continue for good.

The SSW wants to end oil extraction in the Wadden Sea and rejects any extension of its operating period. It also wants the "Strategy for the Wadden Sea 2100" implemented and an end to dumping Hamburg harbor sludge in the North Sea.

Companies drill for oil in the Wadden Sea. The SSW wants this to stop. The permit should not be extended. Sludge from Hamburg's harbor should no longer be dumped in the North Sea.

The SSW wants old munitions from the World Wars recovered from the North Sea and the Baltic Sea and disposed of safely. Besides the state, the federal government in particular should contribute quickly.

Old bombs and shells from the World Wars lie in the North Sea and Baltic Sea. The SSW wants them taken out and safely destroyed. The state and the federal government should do this together. The federal government should help fast.