European animal and nature protection

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European Animal and Nature Conservation
(ETN)
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legal form registered association
founding 1989 in Much
Seat Much
main emphasis Animal, nature and species protection
Chair Rita Tondorf
Managing directors Melanie Seiler
Website www.etn-ev.de

The European animal and nature protection e. V. ( ETN ) is a non-profit animal and nature conservation organization founded in 1989 with headquarters in the North Rhine-Westphalian community of Much .

Self-image, tasks and goals

The aim of the European Animal and Nature Conservation Association is, according to its own statements, “the worldwide promotion of animal and nature protection in the sense of the Federal Animal Protection and Nature Conservation Act, the animal protection and nature protection laws of the federal states and environmental protection. The purpose of the statutes is achieved in particular through the support and implementation of measures that aim to help animals live in a species-appropriate way and to contribute to respectful behavior between humans and animals ”.

Commitment to animals in need - that is the motto of the ETN eV In order to alleviate the suffering of animals and to make a concrete contribution to animal welfare, the ETN dedicates itself to all four areas: It is committed to exotic animals, stray animals, for Animals in disaster areas and for threatened species.

Commitment to exotic animals: The ETN advocates stricter laws in the areas of wildlife trade and keeping. He explains why wild animals and exotic animals do not belong in private households. He also provides information about the suffering of exotic animals that are tortured and abused for the entertainment of tourists or for social media videos, and advocates an end to this abuse. The ETN helps exotic animals that have been freed from bad positions by supporting rescue centers and reintroduction projects.

Commitment to street animals: Through veterinary care, the ETN helps sick and neglected cats and dogs in Eastern and Southern Europe who live on the street. With systematic castration campaigns, education of the population and agreements with political decision-makers, the ETN aims to reduce the misery of strays and to limit the population. In Serbia and the Canary Islands, the ETN also finances animal welfare vehicles in which strays are castrated and given medical care. In Serbia, private animal owners can also use this ETN offer. In addition to its commitment to strays, the ETN enables the use of mobile veterinary practices in Germany that look after the animals of young homeless people and take care of them free of charge.

Commitment to animals in disaster areas: Hunger, disease and fear shape the lives of animals that have been left behind in disaster areas and are left to their own devices. Here the ETN provides quick help by supporting the animal rights activists on site to save the animals, provide medical care and give them a safe refuge. He also supports reconstruction measures by animal welfare associations in disaster areas.

Commitment to threatened species: Species diversity is the basis of life on this earth. Protecting them means more than just saving individual species. Because every species has an important function in the ecosystem. If a species dies out, it has devastating consequences - for animals and humans. Therefore, the ETN advocates the protection of valuable habitats, for a rethink in politics and among consumers and thus for the protection of species.

In addition to the specific commitment to animals in need, the aim of the ETN is to achieve sustainable improvements for the lives of animals through stricter laws and regulations. The ETN therefore maintains contact with the political decision-makers.

Projects of the association

As part of the four pillars of its animal welfare work, the European Animal and Nature Conservation Association implements numerous projects at home and abroad. Especially in the southern and eastern European countries, he is committed to limiting stray populations. The aim of this commitment is to sustainably reduce the suffering of street animals. The project that the ETN is realizing in Gran Canaria together with its partner association Arycan is groundbreaking for sustainable animal welfare on site . Since 2013, around 1,500 animals have been castrated annually on the Canary Island with the help of a permanent veterinarian. As a result of this measure, the number of strays caught and returned to the animal shelter has decreased by 20 percent. The ETN partner association Arycan has also carried out a cooperation with the University of Veterinary Medicine in Las Palmas: The students learned to carry out castration campaigns. Then they took part in the campaigns so that significantly more animals could be neutered.

Another lighthouse project of the ETN can be found in Serbia. With the mayor of the city of Bor, the ETN has agreed on a project to limit the stray population, which is unique in Serbia: private dog owners must have their animals neutered, chipped and registered. In order to realize the project, the ETN is financing an ambulance converted into an animal welfare mobile. In this mobile veterinary practice, the animals in Bor are castrated and given medical care. The ETN wants to make it easier for the citizens of Bor to have their animals neutered. At the same time, the number of dogs kept can be recorded directly and educational work can be carried out in this way. The neutering of domestic dogs and strays is free.

One of the projects supported by the ETN in Germany is the DogDoc Berlin project, which is supported by the SPI “Walter May” foundation. With the help of a mobile veterinary practice, a veterinarian treats the animals of poor and homeless adolescents, who mostly live on the street and are looked after by socio-educational institutions. The project thus combines social work with young people and animal welfare through the free or heavily discounted treatment of their animals.

A new project is the ETN's commitment to wildlife and exotic animals. The focus here is on educating social media users. They should learn the suffering associated with videos showing wild and exotic animals in human hands. These can be videos of primates in private households or photos of tourists posing with wild animals. Any distribution of these videos and photos by liking and sharing contributes to the growth of this industry. As a result, even more animals could be captured and made compliant for these videos and photos and, ultimately, entire species could be exterminated. With the project, the ETN is pursuing the goal that social media users boycott such videos and photos and that they do not allow themselves to be photographed with exotic or wild animals when they are abroad, in order to prevent business with the animals.

Hof Huppenhardt - animal welfare and rescue station of the ETN

In Germany, the ETN maintains the Huppenhardt animal protection center near Much in the Bergisches Land with an area of ​​around 10 ha. It serves as a rescue station for large animals. The association's office is also located there.

The large animals that find temporary abode at Hof Huppenhardt include horses, cows, sheep, goats and chickens that were poorly kept, which were confiscated, freed, ransomed or rescued from the butcher. The aim is to teach the animals how to keep them well. Rescued animals that can no longer be referred because they are too old or sick find a permanent home here.

The ETN coordinates aid projects and plans actions and campaigns from Hof ​​Huppenhardt. Regional, national and international. Another focus of the work of the ETN at Hof Huppenhardt is the early education of children and young people. In cooperation with kindergartens and schools, children at Hof Huppenhardt can learn in workshops, animal welfare groups and holiday camps what needs animals have and how they can be protected.

The ETN offers young people the opportunity to do a voluntary ecological year on the farm and adults to do voluntary work. In addition, the ETN offers young people and adults the opportunity to get involved in animal and nature conservation as part of the federal voluntary service.

Partner of the ETN

More than 70 animal and nature conservation organizations, animal shelters and rescue stations in Germany and abroad are affiliated with the ETN. The partners do concrete animal welfare work on site, help animals in need and advocate improvements in animal and nature protection through lobbying and public relations work. The ETN supports the projects of its partners financially as well as with advice and expertise. By sending veterinarians to Southern and Eastern Europe or financing local veterinarians, the ETN enables the partners to carry out large-scale castration campaigns in order to end the misery of the street animals.

The partner organizations are listed on the ETN website.

criticism

The Supervisory and Service Directorate (ADD) of Rhineland-Palatinate banned in 2010, the ETN the collection of donations and public appeals for cash donations in the state, because the club has not complied with his legal obligations to provide information in the collection proceedings. In 2011, the ETN subsequently submitted documents in objection proceedings. However, a decision to lift the ban is still pending as not all of the necessary documents have been submitted. The enforcement of the collection ban was temporarily suspended in 2011.

In North Rhine-Westphalia, the ETN was recognized within the meaning of the law on collective action, which resulted in an oral question in the state parliament. The responsible minister replied to the request that only the formal requirements would be checked in the recognition procedure.

With the turn of the year 2017/2018, a new board of directors completely rebuilt the ETN eV and separated from old structures and responsible persons. The general assembly elected a new assembly of delegates and adopted a new statute that came into force in early 2019.

In order to give the new transparency visible expression, the ETN eV has joined the initiative Transparent Civil Society. By signing the declaration of self-commitment of the Transparent Civil Society Initiative, ETN e. V. as a corporate member to high ethical standards. This includes the rejection of corruption in any form. Further signs of transparency are the publication of comprehensible business reports and the introduction of the responsible persons.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Register of Associations of the Siegburg District Court, VR 2454
  2. ^ ETN: Articles of Association , accessed on January 17, 2019.
  3. ↑ ETN: Self-understanding , accessed on July 12, 2019.
  4. ↑ ETN: Exotic Animals , accessed on July 12, 2019.
  5. ^ ETN: Street Animals , accessed on July 12, 2019.
  6. ↑ ETN: Animals in Disaster Areas , accessed on July 12, 2019.
  7. ↑ ETN: Endangered Species , accessed July 12, 2019.
  8. ↑ Arycan: strays , accessed on 31 October of 2019.
  9. ↑ Arycan: stray castrations , accessed on 31 October of 2019.
  10. ↑ ETN: Tierschutzmobil , accessed on October 31, 2019.
  11. ↑ Dog Doc: Dog Doc , accessed on October 31, 2019.
  12. ↑ ETN: Exoten , accessed on October 31, 2019.
  13. ↑ ETN: Hof Huppenhardt , accessed on September 23, 2019.
  14. ↑ ETN: Hof Huppenhardt , accessed on September 23, 2019.
  15. ↑ ETN: Hof Huppenhardt , accessed on September 23, 2019.
  16. ↑ ETN: Partner , accessed on August 9, 2019.
  17. ↑ ADD: ADD prohibits fundraising by the association “European Animal and Nature Conservation eV” in Rhineland-Palatinate , press release of August 25, 2010.
  18. ↑ ADD: Current addition from August 2011: European Animal and Nature Conservation eV
  19. ^ Minutes of the 53rd session of the 16th state parliament in North Rhine-Westphalia
  20. ↑ TierschutzVMG NRW
  21. ↑ ETN statutes of ETN e. V.
  22. ↑ Transparent civil society initiative