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  • 2020-02-03 (xsd:date)
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  • the Nature Directives require EU Member States to ensure that letting them roam free is forbidden and effectively prevented.">.> Arie Trouwborst (en)
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  • A claim that to many may sound absurd and disturbing spread across the Dutch media-landscape in November 2019. According to EU environmental laws domestic cats should be banned from roaming outside since they are a danger to wildlife. This was originally claimed by two law-researchers of the university of Tilburg in an article in the Journal of Environmental Law (Oxford Academic). By looking at EU environmental laws and siding this with data about the effect of domestic cats on wildlife researchers Arie Trouwborst and Han Somsen came to the conclusion that member states are obligated to ban cat-owners from letting their cats roam outside. In the article’s conclusion the authors write: It is well recognised that biodiversity loss is one of the most urgent contemporary crises (en)
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