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One more year, El Refugio del Burrito displays an operation to ensure animal welfare during El Rocío Pilgrimage.

With over one million participants and close to 120 brotherhoods, El Rocío is the largest pilgrimage in the Western world. The worshippers will undertake the journey to the chapel of El Rocío (Almonte, Huelva) in carts decorated with colours and ribbons and riding horses, mules and other equines. More than 20,000 animals will accompany them.

bienestar animal el rocio

Guided tour and grooming

Event date: 
Thursday, 29 December, 2016 - 11:00 to Saturday, 31 December, 2016 - 13:00
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Are you in South Spain this Christmas? Do you feel like spending a day surrounded by nature and equines and learning more about this beautiful animals?

On the 29, 30 and 31 of December from 11am to 1pm we will offer guided tours with grooming sessions in our Sanctuary in Fuente de Piedra (Malaga)

Warnings of fatal harm to donkeys from plastic pollution

This Plastic Free July, we spoke with the team at The Donkey Sanctuary Kenya about the rise in cases of poisoning and colic due to plastic ingestion.

The lead vet at our clinic on Lamu Island in Kenya has issued a stark warning about the increasing number of donkeys who are dying as a result of escalating plastic pollution at the UNESCO World Heritage site.

Dr Obadiah Sing'Oei, Lamu Programme Manager and Clinic Lead, revealed that up to five per cent of donkeys they see at the clinic show signs of nutritional colic, which is usually fatal.

Burros y plastico en Lamu

Farm worker groom wanted

The Donkey Sanctuary is an international animal welfare organisation, offering care and protection to donkeys and mules worldwide. We are working for a world where donkeys and mules live free from suffering, and their contribution to humanity is fully valued. We are achieving this by transforming the quality of life for donkeys, mules and people worldwide through greater understanding, collaboration and support, and by promoting lasting, mutually life-enhancing relationships.

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