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 ...

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 ...

Donkeys on the Greek island of Santorini are being crippled by heavy tourists enjoying a ride on the animals. During the peak summer holiday season between May and October thousands visit the idyll… ...

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 ...

Donkeys and mules look over the village of Fira in April 2008 in Santorini, Greece. The equines that carry tourists up steep steps on the popular island will be protected from unsafe working ...

Elisavet Chatzi, 45, a volunteer from Athens who participated in a peaceful protest in Santorini over donkeys’ treatment there earlier this year, said: “It’s a very big step, I think all our ...

Greece banned obese tourists from riding donkeys after complaints about the animals health surfaced. In this image, donkeys and mules wait to give tourists a ride in the village of Fira, the ...

But the Greek island of Santorini has donkeys. ... It looks just like the pictures that portray Greece’s famous islands and lure visitors from afar to ... even the 586 steps and the donkeys, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Greece Bans 'Overweight' Tourists From Riding the Famous Donkeys of Santorini. ... up more than 500 steep steps four to five times a day,” PETA UK director of international programs, ...