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 ...

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 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 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 ...

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 ...

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 the clip, which has since been viewed over 2,700 times, a narrator said that about 100 donkeys and mules are still suffering every day as they trek up and down the “slippery,” 500-step ...

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 ...

An insider guide to enjoying this iconic Greek island, its dazzling sunsets, clifftop villages and all-encompassing volcano ...

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, ...