The Donkey Sanctuary

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Latest News

The feature of The Donkey Sanctuary’s work which I’ve always found the most inspiring is their work with working equids, improving the...

A man who failed to trim his donkeys’ overgrown hooves, leading three of them to suffer in pain, has been fined by magistrates.

Most tourists visit Bahir Dar for its setting on the southern shores of Lake Tana, the largest lake in Ethiopia and the source of the...

21 July 2017 to 3 September 2017. Slade House Farm, Sidmouth, Devon EX10 0NU

26 July 2017. Ringmer, East Sussex

28 July 2017. The Donkey Sanctuary Leeds, Swan Lane, Eccup, Leeds LS16 8AZ