‘Ghostly’ no more!
Her fluffy coat may give her a slightly fuzzy, phantom-like outline, but Melina is solidly there, and now in her forever home where she can enjoy the 100% real care that she deserves. She’s just one of the 50 “ghost dogs” that we sterilised last year. She had been particularly badly let down by humanity. […]
Sun-shades for the working equids of Hydra!
Congratulations are in order for the Municipality of Hydra! For years now we have been working closely with HydraArk and other Animal Welfare groups, campaigning for the creation of sun-shades for the working equids by the port, as well as the placement of a water trough. We have been informed that a first step has […]
Supporting two donkey shelters in Crete!
“Don’t you just love my shiny gnashers?” This is one of the donkeys being cared for in Crete by the lovely people at Agia Marina Donkey Rescue, near Heraklion. Our Equine Team was there in May supporting two refuges that take in abandoned and abused donkeys, ponies and mules (the other is Walk With Donkeys […]
VISITING THE SAWA SHELTER IN SANTORINI
On the 24th and 25th of April 2019 our Equine Programme Team -consisted of our veterinarian Michael Gaganis and farrier Aris Vlachakis- travelled to the island of Santorini to care for the retired working equines at the SAWA shelter. Overall they treated a total of 26 animals none of which would have otherwise access to […]
KAsos ‘zoo’: Rescue & Closure
The story of our successful campaign to rescue the ‘zoo’ animals of Kasos The Animal Action Greece/Animal Action Greece Equine Team has been visiting the small island of Kasos, down in the Southern Aegean, since 2011. Like many remote communities, Kasos has never had a resident vet. Nevertheless, a diminishing population of donkeys is still […]
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Will the politically diverse new EP mean a unified voice for animals?
The results are finally in, and we are optimistic to see that more than 100 candidates who pledged to act for animals have been elected to the new European Parliament, with representation across the political groups and across the EU. Of the candidates who took the animal welfare pledges in our VoteforAnimals2019 campaign – their […]
Irma, Gigi and Jojoba got their “happy endings”
Irma, Gigi, and Jojoba all had the worst possible start in life but we have received news of some ‘happy endings’ that we thought you’d like to hear about… Last year the three pups were dumped, along with their mother, Truffle, and one further sibling, on a hillside above Aspropyrgos (a run-down industrial area) outside […]
STAVROS OUTREACH
No one writes to the papers about these animals and their working conditions… Up in northern Greece, in remote mountain villages where tourists never venture, whole communities depend on forestry. This is not the Greece of the brochure, with little whitewashed houses clustered next to a sandy bay and an azure sea. Here, the weather […]
