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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.
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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.
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Past issues / Archive
2025 - 2026
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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
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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
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MARCH 2025 - JUNE 2025
- Compassionate handling
- New approach re skins trade
- Botswana Outreach
- World Donkey Day
- Research in Ghana
- Conferences
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2024
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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
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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
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DEC 23 - JAN 24
- Report on DfA for past seven years
- Feedback from conferences
- Essential TICK knowledge
- ESG guidelines
- Training in Liberia
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2023
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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
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AUG -SEP 2023
- Reality of nature
- Africa-based A-KI grants
- Transforming Animal Law
- Control worms in donkeys
- Eradicating rabies in Kenya
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JUN-JUL 2023
- A future for African donkeys
- Perspectives from The Gambia
- Slaughter continues in Kenya
- PROFILE: SPANA-100 YEARS
- Project updates
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APR-MAY 2023
- Donkey massacres in East Africa
- Project updates around Africa
- PROFILE Eseltjiesrus in RSA
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FEB-MAR 2023
- Change habits for donkey welfare
- Donkeys, SDG's & Humane education
- PROFILE Blind Love in SouthA frica
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DEC-JAN 2023
- Reports help donkeys
- Feedback from conferences
- PROFILE Okavango Animal Welfare Trust in Botswana
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2022
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OCT - NOV 2022
- Report on donkey farming
- Be a positive energy
- Skins trade feedback
- PROFILE: TAHUCHA in Tanzania
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AUG - SEP 2022
- Free-ranging donkeys
- Skins Trade update
- Grants for African charities
- MARES action in Zimbabwe
- Donkey earning potential
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JUN - JUL 2022
- The global skins trade
- Deworming donkeys
- Donkey Academy
- African updates
- Value of donkeys
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APR - MAY 2022
- Obtaining funding
- Drought in Kenya
- Community collaboration
- PROFILE: Donkey power
- Sarcoids treatment
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FEB - MAR 2022
- Donkey Academy
- Revision of vet services
- Circle of Trust
- Skins trade - African or Chinese
problem?
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DEC 2021 - JAN 2022
- Global donkey welfare issues
- Forum on donkey welfare
- AAW Conference
- New Mule research
- PROFILE: NAWA
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2021
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OCTOBER 2021
- The worth of donkeys
- African donkey trade feedback
- Veterinary students feedback
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AUGUST 2021
- SPECIAL SECTION - FIGHT TO SAVE
AFRICAN DONKEYS
- Profile: Cart Horse Protection
Association
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JUNE 2021
- Setback for donkeys in Africa
- Draft Animals conference feedback
- Profile: Liberia Animal Welfare
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APRIL 2021
- The importance of succession
- Practical natural help for donkeys
- Profile: Lesotho Equine Welfare
- Fighting the skins trade in RSA
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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
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2020
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DECEMBER 2020
- REPORT on the DWS
- Sustainable change
- Last Hope provides help
- Dental disorders
- Donkey help around Africa
- Books for Vets
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OCTOBER 2020
- The value of donkeys
- Knowledge sharing
- Liberia AWCS: ‘love all animals’
- Profile:Tikobane Trust, Zimbabwe
- Working animals & relief work
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AUGUST 2020
- Voice for Equids
- Lawyers for donkeys
- PROFILE: Zambezi Working Donkey
Project
- Covid Aid from TDS
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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
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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
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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
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2019
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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
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OCTOBER 2019
- Compassion creates compassion
- African donkey care solutions
- AWC REPORT BACK
- Profile:GhanaSPCA
- Breeching advice
- Dentistry Clinical Companion
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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
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JULY 2019 SPECIAL REPORT
- Impact of skin trade in RSA
- Labourer or export product?
- Research highlights & policy
- Improving rural livelihoods
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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
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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
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FEBRUARY 2019
- Donkeys as eco-friendly solution
- Climate change & donkeys
- Multi-tasking with donkeys
- Donkeys & humane education
- Skins trade around Africa
- Bridles & bits
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2018
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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
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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
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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
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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
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APRIL 2018
- True value of donkeys
- Sustainable Development Guide
- Legislation for donkeys
- Profile: SPANA in Botswana
- Clinical donkey companion
- Donkey slaughter in Kenya
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FEBRUARY 2018
- Changing donkey perceptions
- Donkey objectives around Africa
- Donkey care in Tanzania
- Donkey welfare in Nigeria
- Youth initiative in Zimbabwe
- Erroneous rural beliefs
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2017
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DECEMBER 2017
- Donkeys under global threat
- Africa at DWS
- Challenges & success in Africa
- Southern African collaboration
- Donkey farming research
- BROOKE Android Vet App
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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
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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
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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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