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 ...

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 ...

But the Greek island of Santorini has donkeys ... Why smelly steps? Because the donkeys have been traversing that trail and those steps for centuries, and donkeys do what donkeys do during ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Scottie is a Newsweek science fellow and student at the University of Florida. Her work has appeared in Women's Health, the Gainesville Sun and WUFT, an NPR-PBS affiliate. After videos ...

Avoid running the trail at night because it's not well lit, and people often congregate along the trail to watch Santorini's famously ... can be reached via foot, donkey-back, or railroad.

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 ...