Species protection

This distinguishes species protection from animal welfare, in which the individual animal is protected against torture or inappropriate animal husbandry for its own sake and because of its capacity for suffering. Compliance with animal welfare regulations is the responsibility of theVeterinary office in the city administration and not the lower nature conservation authority.

Species protection or species aid programs aim to protect or promote individual endangered species. Species conservation is the part of nature conservation that deals with the preservation of genetic diversity within species or across species, the protection of populations of individual species or the protection, maintenance and development of entire habitats (biotopes) for certain species. It is also referred to as the conservation of genetic diversity, population and habitat protection. Species conservation is therefore generally also biotope conservation, not least because the species to be protected is a necessary component or an important indicator of the natural characteristics of the habitat. Conversely, the destruction of the habitat also results in the disappearance of the species that depend on it (species extinction). We make a rough distinction between the protection of native species and the so-called controlling (international) protection of species.