Human Environment Animal Welfare (German: Mensch Umwelt Tierschutz, short form: The Animal Protection Party, German: Die Tierschutzpartei) is a political party in Germany. It was founded in 1993, and in 2004 it had about 1,000 members. In 2014 one candidate was elected to the European Parliament. He left the party in December 2014. Today the party has no members in the state parliaments, the European Parliament or the Bundestag.