It is arguably the most spectacular of the islands which adorn the sun-sparkled waters of the Aegean Sea; a Greek gift where giant cliffs rise starkly above the waves - dramatic remnants of the ...

The initiative, which includes a campaign video, is the result of a partnership between The Donkey Sanctuary and local authorities in Santorini. “We are excited to launch the In Their Hooves ...

Visiting the Greek island of Santorini anytime soon? Activists have a message for you: Don't ride donkeys up its iconic, precipitous steps. The advice has been made in conjunction with a cruise ...

For several years now, donkeys have been used to ferry tourists up and down the 520 cobbled steps in Santorini. The donkeys are made to take four or five return journeys in a day in the scorching ...

A new campaign in Santorini, Greece is asking tourists to think twice before riding donkeys. The donkeys have traditionally been a popular way for the 17,000 people who arrive off cruise ships ...

In a sweeping move for equine rights, the Greek island of Santorini has formally banned “obese” tourists weighing over 220 pounds from riding local donkeys, after outcry from animal rights ...

One island in Greece is putting a limit on how much weight their donkeys can carry. Tourists wishing to take a ride on Santorini's famed donkeys must now weigh less than 220 pounds (100 kilograms ...

A burden has been lifted from the shoulders of Greece’s working donkey population. The country has banned “overweight” tourists from riding the animals on the popular island of Santorini ...

The key to busting Santorini's brutal donkey tradition, she says, "is to first get the tourists to stop feeding [the trade]." In 2015 and in the wake of a nationwide spike in animal abuse, Greece ...

Animal activists say overweight tourists - mostly from the United States, Russia and the United Kingdom - are causing injury to the donkeys that carry them up and down the hills on the Greek isle ...