Tourists urged to reconsider taking traditional donkey rides in Santorini

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Donkeys have suffered spinal injuries and saddlesores

Souleymane Doumbia, 27, who collects garbage using a donkey, poses for a photograph before going for a walk with his friendsArouna Diabate drives his cart as he works in Bamako.

 

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