It’s Saturday, August 26, 5 p.m. Maria T. was driving her daughter, Dimitra S., by car to Fyli, in West Attica.
ANIMAL PROTECTION
An incident of animal killing has been documented in the northern Peloponnese resort of Ermioni.
A Supreme Court prosecutor has ordered an investigation into the holding of a donkey road race on the island of Lesvos after footage showing youths riding the animals surfaced online.
In the wake of the backlash created by images of a mule on Hydra carrying a refrigerator, the island’s mayor, Giorgos Koukoulakis, has argued that working animals are a necessity.
At first sight, Tiembe studies his frozen breakfast with hesitation: Chunks of red meat and bone packed in a foot-long block of ice.
Ring-tailed lemurs enjoy licking a fruit popsicle at the Attica Zoological Park in Spata suburb, eastern Athens, on Friday.
Rhodes’ iconic fallow deer – statues of which stand as emblems at the entrance to the southeastern Aegean island’s Mandraki Harbor – are being decimated by the raging wildfire tearing through forests.
An Athens prosecutor has ordered an investigation into official complaints and a storm of social media claims concerning the deaths of more than a dozen cats and dogs at a privately run shelter for strays in Lagonisi, East Attica, that was consumed by Monday’s big wildfire.
A volunteer with Dog’s Voice looks after a puppy rescued from this week’s Attica wildfires.
A prosecutor has ordered a preliminary investigation into the circumstances of the death of animals at a private shelter in Lagonissi, in southeastern Attica, following an extensive fire in the region.
More than 300 cats, dogs, farm animals and horses have been rescued from the East Attica wildfires that flared up on Monday, an Interior Ministry official said on Tuesday, while animal protection groups reported that dozens also perished as the blazes tore through fields, farms, yards and animal shelters.
A 76-year-old man from the island of Rhodes, southeastern Greece, was fined a whopping 120,000 euros for animal abuse and abandoning four kittens.
The horrific death of a carriage horse transporting tourists on the island of Corfu in the scorching heat at noon on Thursday and the images of it lying prostrate on ground have caused a public outcry, prompting the intervention of Supreme Court Deputy Prosecutor Anastasia Massoura.
The owner of a horse that collapsed and died while pulling a tourist carriage through a Corfu street has been arrested.
Police in Corfu have launched a preliminary investigation into the death of a horse that was pulling a tourist carriage through the island’s main town. The animal collapsed and died on a public road around noon as residents and visitors looked on, according to a report by state broadcaster ERT.
A 75-year-old man was arrested on the island of Zakynthos on Wednesday night for dragging a dog behind his vehicle.
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