Learn more about our welfare partnerships across Africa
To mark the UN's International Day of Rural Women, we look to a pioneering donkey welfare project funded by The Donkey Sanctuary in western Zimbabwe.
Motorbike-powered anti-poaching patrols and grassroots initiatives on the Tanzania-Kenya border have been successfully clamping down on the illegal trafficking of donkeys.
More than 100 donkeys have avoided being slaughtered for the skin trade after being rescued by local animal welfare organisations with our financial support. Find out more here.
In a massive blow to donkey welfare, a court decision in Kenya will allow the resumption of donkey slaughter for their skins. Learn more about the joint efforts to ban the slaughter here.
On World Water Day we pay tribute and give thanks to donkeys, who play a critical role in collecting fresh, clean water for communities in remote areas worldwide, including Ethiopia.
An emergency fund to help working donkey and mule owners in Africa, Asia and the Americas who are struggling because of the coronavirus outbreak, is being launched by The Donkey Sanctuary.
The decision by the Kenyan Government to close its donkey slaughterhouses represents a decisive blow against the skin trade in the region.
Donkeys are in a state of global crisis with the animals facing population collapse across a number of countries as traders target their skins to export as an ingredient for ejiao, a traditional Chinese medicine.
The Donkey Sanctuary has called for an immediate halt to the trade in donkey skins at the third annual Africa Animal Welfare Conference in Ethiopia.
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We work to ensure donkeys across the Americas are nurtured and well looked after, helping them form a vital part of local communities.
