Michael Aufhauser is a German

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 animal rights activist and founder of Gut Aiderbichl, the largest sanctuary for animals in Austria, which houses more than 1,000 animals of a variety of species. Meanwhile, 15 more farms under this model in Germany

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

, Austria

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, Switzerland

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 and one built in France

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, some of which are specialized in certain animal species.
Aufhauser drew a lot of attention of German and international mass media on his project when he bought a "runaway cow" called Yvonne

Yvonne (cow)

Yvonne is a brown-white cow that escaped from its farmer in Mühldorf, Germany and caused a lot of attention in the media in 2011 after she had kept hiding in woods for many weeks. Farmers, police and animal rights activists were unable to find and capture her....

in August 2011.