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CURRENT ISSUE:
July 2026- October 2026
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  • Moringa - The miracle tree
  • Free welfare services: yes – no – or maybe?
  • Deworming – further responses to the discussion
    in our previous newsletter
  • New name, same mission - Working Animals International
  • Okavango Delta Outreach - Botswana.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PREVIOUS ISSUE:
March 2026- June 2026
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  • A cry for help- News about the skins trade in Tanzania
  • Funding Opportunity
  • Deworming practices
  • Feedback from our correspondents
  • We asked – you answered!
    Thank you to everyone who responded
    to our recent questionnaire.
Past issues / Archive
2025 - 2026

 

Nov 2025 February 2026 Newsletter

NOVEMBER 2025- FEB 2026

  • The power of teamwork - One Health, One Welfare
  • Progress against donkey smuggling - follow-up
  • Making humane saddles
  • Large scale donkey population control
  • Donkeys feature at FAO conference in Italy
  • The battle against the skins trade continues - A follow-up report
July-October2025

JULY 2025 - OCTOBER 2025

  • A brighter future for donkeys in Africa
  • Research round-up. A community-based approach for improving donkey welfare in Ethiopia
  • The importance of donkeys to communities
  • Donkeys saved from illegal slaughter in Kitui County, Kenya
Mar-June2025

MARCH 2025 - JUNE 2025

  • Compassionate handling
  • New approach re skins trade
  • Botswana Outreach
  • World Donkey Day
  • Research in Ghana
  • Conferences
2024

 

April-May 2024

APRIL 2024 - MAY 2024

  • Skins Trade - enforcement required
  • Integrating women in veterinary sector
  • South Africa: Donkey champions teach humane education
  • Tanzania: Water for the water bearers
  • A-KI Grant programme
February-March

FEB 2024 - MAR 2024

  • Outreach by Cart Horse Protection Association
  • One Health, One Welfare & the environment
  • Eight resolutions from Africa Animal Welfare
  • Report back from Zambia, The Gambia, Tanzania
December-January 2024

DEC 23 - JAN 24

  • Report on DfA for past seven years
  • Feedback from conferences
  • Essential TICK knowledge
  • ESG guidelines
  • Training in Liberia
2023
October-November 2023

OCT-NOV 2023

  • Study will impact African donkeys
  • World Animal Day
  • Water reservoirs in Ghana built
  • PROFILE Jarjeer Mule & Donkey Refuge in Morocco
  • African donkey welfare update
August-September 2023

AUG -SEP 2023

  • Reality of nature
  • Africa-based A-KI grants
  • Transforming Animal Law
  • Control worms in donkeys
  • Eradicating rabies in Kenya
June July 2023

JUN-JUL 2023

  • A future for African donkeys
  • Perspectives from The Gambia
  • Slaughter continues in Kenya
  • PROFILE: SPANA-100 YEARS
  • Project updates
April-May 2023

APR-MAY 2023

  • Donkey massacres in East Africa
  • Project updates around Africa
  • PROFILE Eseltjiesrus in RSA
February-March 2023

FEB-MAR 2023

  • Change habits for donkey welfare
  • Donkeys, SDG's & Humane education
  • PROFILE Blind Love in SouthA frica
December 2022-January 2023

DEC-JAN 2023

  • Reports help donkeys
  • Feedback from conferences
  • PROFILE Okavango Animal Welfare Trust in Botswana
2022
October-November 2022

OCT - NOV 2022

  • Report on donkey farming
  • Be a positive energy
  • Skins trade feedback
  • PROFILE: TAHUCHA in Tanzania
August-September 2022

AUG - SEP 2022

  • Free-ranging donkeys
  • Skins Trade update
  • Grants for African charities
  • MARES action in Zimbabwe
  • Donkey earning potential
June-July 2022

JUN - JUL 2022

  • The global skins trade
  • Deworming donkeys
  • Donkey Academy
  • African updates
  • Value of donkeys
April-May 2022

APR - MAY 2022

  • Obtaining funding
  • Drought in Kenya
  • Community collaboration
  • PROFILE: Donkey power
  • Sarcoids treatment
February-March 2022

FEB - MAR 2022

  • Donkey Academy
  • Revision of vet services
  • Circle of Trust
  • Skins trade - African or Chinese problem?
December 2021-January 2022

DEC 2021 - JAN 2022

  • Global donkey welfare issues
  • Forum on donkey welfare
  • AAW Conference
  • New Mule research
  • PROFILE: NAWA

 

 

 

2021
October 2021

OCTOBER 2021

  • The worth of donkeys
  • African donkey trade feedback
  • Veterinary students feedback
August 2021

AUGUST 2021

  • SPECIAL SECTION - FIGHT TO SAVE AFRICAN DONKEYS
  • Profile: Cart Horse Protection Association
June 2021

JUNE 2021

  • Setback for donkeys in Africa
  • Draft Animals conference feedback
  • Profile: Liberia Animal Welfare
April 2021

APRIL 2021

  • The importance of succession
  • Practical natural help for donkeys
  • Profile: Lesotho Equine Welfare
  • Fighting the skins trade in RSA
February 2021

FEBRUARY 2021

  • The power of communication
  • Skins trade in Africa
  • TAWESO helps in Tanzania
  • Profile: Bam AC in Uganda
  • Create trust before change
  • Agro-forestry in Ethiopia
  • Helping hand from A-KI

 

 

2020
December 2020

DECEMBER 2020

  • REPORT on the DWS
  • Sustainable change
  • Last Hope provides help
  • Dental disorders
  • Donkey help around Africa
  • Books for Vets
October 2020

OCTOBER 2020

  • The value of donkeys
  • Knowledge sharing
  • Liberia AWCS: ‘love all animals’
  • Profile:Tikobane Trust, Zimbabwe
  • Working animals & relief work
August 2020

AUGUST 2020

  • Voice for Equids
  • Lawyers for donkeys
  • PROFILE: Zambezi Working Donkey Project
  • Covid Aid from TDS
June 2020

JUNE 2020

  • Corona consequences
  • Grants from AKI
  • Covid Vet training impact
  • Educating children in Botswana
  • Profile: AWS, Cameroon
  • Wound solutions in Tanzania
  • Feedback from BAM in Uganda
  • Harness Help
April 2020

APRIL 2020

  • We are all linked
  • Donkey research in Somaliland
  • Challenges in Ghana & Uganda
  • Lawyers for animals
  • Profile:The Brooke
  • Healthy hooves in Malawi
  • Networking in the E.Cape
February 2020

FEBRUARY 2020

  • Donkeys need to be loved
  • Recognising pain in donkeys
  • Effective harnessing
  • Eco-sensitive transport
  • Profile: Ansie in Botswana
  • Media against Skins Trade
  • AKI - Partners and Grantees
2019
December 2019

DECEMBER 2019

  • Skin trade Conference
  • New Under the Skin Report
  • Banning yokes in Zambia
  • SPANA in Tanzania
  • Drought in Namibia
  • Donkey Welfare Symposium
  • Dangers of hobbling
October 2019

OCTOBER 2019

  • Compassion creates compassion
  • African donkey care solutions
  • AWC REPORT BACK
  • Profile:GhanaSPCA
  • Breeching advice
  • Dentistry Clinical Companion
August 2019

AUGUST 2019

  • Appropriate donkey care
  • Slaughter in Bostwana
  • Profile:Animal-Kind International
  • Donkey power in Ethiopia
  • Clinic for donkeys in Nigeria
  • Research & advocacy
  • Humane Education Coalition
July 2019 Special Report

JULY 2019 SPECIAL REPORT

  • Impact of skin trade in RSA
  • Labourer or export product?
  • Research highlights & policy
  • Improving rural livelihoods
June 2019

JUNE 2019

  • Bottom lines for NGO’s
  • Improving donkey lives in Zambia
  • Slaughtering donkeys in Kenya
  • Profile:MARES in Zimbabwe
  • Brooke in Tanzania & S.Sudan
  • Sisal solution in Kenya
  • Walking for donkeys
April 2019

APRIL 2019

  • Hiding pain for survival
  • Equine influenza in Nigeria
  • Botswana donkey numbers drop
  • Profile:
    Welttierschutzgesellschaft
  • Waste removal in Mali
  • Making friends in Morocco
  • Outreach by Eseltjiesrus
February 2019

FEBRUARY 2019

  • Donkeys as eco-friendly solution
  • Climate change & donkeys
  • Multi-tasking with donkeys
  • Donkeys & humane education
  • Skins trade around Africa
  • Bridles & bits

2018

December 2018

DECEMBER 2018

  • Ethical donkey treatment?
  • Holistic welfare model
  • Profile: amaTrac uluntu
  • Vets united by WTG in Tanzania
  • Abattoir rescues in Zimbabwe
  • Voices for women
  • Bill for donkeys in Nigeria
October 2018

OCTOBER 2018

  • Five freedoms & animal welfare
  • Correct hitching
  • Animal Welfare Conference
  • Equid welfare in Lesotho
  • Profile: Gambia Horse & Donkey
  • Trends in donkey population
  • Problem breeding behaviours
August 2018

AUGUST 2018

  • One health - the right to thrive
  • Zimbabwe against skin trade
  • Reflective tags for donkeys
  • Profile: FAWCAM in Cameroon
  • Proper pack saddles
  • WTG in Tanzania
  • Conflict donkeys in Sudan
June 2018

JUNE 2018

  • Donkeys & human wellness
  • Skins trade impact in Africa
  • OIE & ICFAW partnership
  • Profile: ASPA in Tanzania
  • National Animal Welfare Forum
  • Training in The Gambia
  • Support by amaTrac uluntu
April 2018

APRIL 2018

  • True value of donkeys
  • Sustainable Development Guide
  • Legislation for donkeys
  • Profile: SPANA in Botswana
  • Clinical donkey companion
  • Donkey slaughter in Kenya
February 2018

FEBRUARY 2018

  • Changing donkey perceptions
  • Donkey objectives around Africa
  • Donkey care in Tanzania
  • Donkey welfare in Nigeria
  • Youth initiative in Zimbabwe
  • Erroneous rural beliefs
2017
December 2017

DECEMBER 2017

  • Donkeys under global threat
  • Africa at DWS
  • Challenges & success in Africa
  • Southern African collaboration
  • Donkey farming research
  • BROOKE Android Vet App
Oct 2017

OCTOBER 2017

  • Donkey product in Africa
  • Conflict of human/wildlife
  • OIE global strategy
  • Profile:AWARE Trust
  • LSPCA uses ‘The Hand’
  • CHPA outreach in Tankwa
  • World Animal Net resource
July 2017

JULY 2017

  • Stance against skin trade
  • To work-or not your donkey
  • African donkey conditions
  • Measuring welfare - ‘The Hand’
  • Profile:Donkey Dairy Farm
  • African Horse Sickness
  • Brooke East Africa
April 2017

APRIL 2017

  • Educating humans
  • Welfare in remote Malawi
  • Donkey trade in Tanzania
  • Laws on animal suffering
  • Reality of the skin trade
  • Collar project in Zimbabwe

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