Animal-powered transport

A tour agency organizing horse riding tours in the sea of one of the country's tourism hotspots, Antalya's Alanya district, has sparked outrage among animal rights activists, with experts warning that it could pose serious damage to the horses.

At the Ministry of Agriculture, Bulgaria's Advisory Council on Horses convened for the first time, revealing a thriving equine population of 32,687 registered and bred horses across the country. Notably, over one-third of these belong to the esteemed category of thoroughbreds.

A man who quit his job and devoted himself to injured pack animals since 2018 has established Türkiye's first volunteer animal operating room.

After quitting his job in the advertising sector in 2018, Okan Oflaz began to take care of disabled and injured pack animals.

A charming, must-do tourist attraction or a cruel, outdated commercial activity? New York's horse-drawn carriages have operated since the 1800s, but lawmakers now want to replace them with electric vehicles.

For some, the equine-driven rides around Central Park are part of the fabric of the Big Apple, like yellow taxis and Broadway shows.

Following a ban of horse-drawn carriages in the Princes' Islands, an archipelago of nine islands off the coast of Istanbul, the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality bought nearly 1200 horses and rehomed over 800 last year.

The Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality has brought electric vehicles to be used on the Princes' Islands (Adalar), off Istanbul's coast, after a ban on horse-drawn carriages as a result of the killing of dozens of horses due to an outbreak of glanders and years-long animal rights activism against what advocates called the ill-treatment of horses.

A pigeon has been arrested by police in India on suspicion of being a spy from Pakistan.

The bird was seized on Thursday after being spotted carrying a "stamped message" on its body.

The message was written partly in Urdu, the official language of Pakistan. It also contained a Pakistani phone number, according to reports.

Following the killing of 81 horses due to the outbreak of glanders in Büyükada, the largest of Istanbul's nine Princes' Islands, İstanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu said that number of horse-drawn carriages in Adalar district would be reduced and that only 35 carriages would continue to be used as "symbols" of the island. 

Researchers from the University of Sussex and the University of Portsmouth discovered that horses can read, remember and react to human expressions.

Dozens of horses were left to die of cold and hunger high in the Osogovo Mountain. A campaign of environmentalists was held on Sunday. A whole herd of animals has been abandoned by their owner at random over the past few months.

The horses were blocked by the snow and there was nothing to eat at all. They are owned by businessman Petar Pishtalov from Kyustendil, NOVA reports.