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Kai-Mook, the baby elephant born in Antwerp Zoo in 2009 to the delight of the entire country, will soon become a big sister – and an aunt – animal park Planckendael announced yesterday.
A company in Leuven, Bio-Incubator, has received authorisation to keep as many as 6,870 animals next year for testing, which is a quadrupling of the current number allowed.
More horses are ending up in Belgian shelters than ever before, reports Bit magazine.
The Brussels-Capital Region has not yet found a solution to the rising number of parakeets in the city, currently estimated at around 12,000.
Around 7,500 people took part in a demonstration on Sunday in Brussels against the ritual slaughter of sheep without anaesthesia. Animal rights organisation Gaia was behind the demonstration.
This month Belgium takes over the Presidency of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) for a period of two years, reports Le Soir.
Consumer organisations can now organise class action suits against a company in cases where many people have suffered the same damages.
The Brussels municipality of Ixelles has established a set of rules for people who feed feral cats, and mapped out specified feeding posts so that the cats can be sterilised more easily, reports B
Belgium will assist in the repatriation mission of flight MH17 which crashed in Eastern Ukraine on July 17.
