Learn more about our welfare partnerships across Asia
New research by the University of Portsmouth and The Donkey Sanctuary found that working equids whose owners believe they feel emotions have significantly better health and welfare outcomes than those whose owners do not.
The Donkey Sanctuary has launched a new funding opportunity called the Nepal One Welfare Fund.
A new report from The Donkey Sanctuary has uncovered the vast online illegal trading network sending millions of donkeys to their deaths.
Your generous support has helped to fund two new shelters in a Nepalese city – providing vital protection and respite for some of the country's hardest working donkeys and mules.
Our CERF fund has helped hundreds of donkey and mule-owning families in Uttarakhand, India, to feed their animals sustainably with home-grown produce during the Covid-19 pandemic.
We joined forces with Animal Nepal to provide urgent food and relief supplies to labourers and their working donkeys and mules after they were left stranded in the brick kilns of Nepal in the wake of the pandemic. Find out more here.
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.
Earlier this year, the Livestock Development division of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province announced plans to ‘farm’ and export 80,000 donkeys to China within three years. This week, media reports from Pakistan revealed that objections have meant that the project is now shelved.
The Donkey Sanctuary celebrates big step in tackling donkey skin trade as the charity convinces eBay to ban ejiao products.
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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.
