🤬STOP RIDING DONKEYS🤬
💖NEED ONLY TO BE LOVE💖
Put yourself in their hooves: that is the message holidaymakers will be asked to consider before deciding to ascend the 600 steps that zigzag up the cliffs of Santorini on the back of a donkey.
After several summers of the fabled isle’s equine population being forced to bear the brunt of overweight tourists, activists, in collaboration with the cruise-line industry, have finally taken action. The result is an unprecedented initiative to sensitise travellers to the stress placed on the animals when compelled to make the vertiginous climb with perilously heavy human cargo.
The animals have been used since time immemorial to shuttle people from the volcanic isle’s port to its main settlement 400 metres above sea level.
The arrival of a five-cabin cable car helped lessen the load before Santorini’s runaway popularity as Europe’s most favoured island destination created the increasingly modern plague of over-tourism. With as many as 17,000 tourists a day disembarking from cruise ships off the 76 sq km Cycladic isle, demand has soared.
Under the pressure, more equines have been recorded suffering from spinal injuries, saddle sores and exhaustion in recent years than ever before.
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