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Alarm raised as donkey population falls sharply

Advocacy groups term slaughter of donkeys for export unsustainable and call for regional talks. [File, Standard]

Close to 360,000 donkeys in the country are estimated to have been slaughtered for export to meet China’s increasing demand for donkey meat and skins since January.

Donkey advocacy groups estimate that the numbers of legally slaughtered donkeys have risen to close to 1,000 per day in four slaughterhouses in the country.

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