Starvation looms for Morocco’s horses as tourism collapses

Starvation looms for Morocco’s horses as tourism collapses

Starvation looms for Morocco's horses as tourism collapses

Starvation looms for Morocco's horses as tourism collapses

Starvation looms for Morocco's horses as tourism collapses

A doctor inspects a sick horse at the SPANA shelter in Marrakech. (AP)

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Starvation looms for Morocco's horses as tourism collapses

SPANA helped carriage owners provide the basics for their horses when the COVID-19 pandemic reached Morocco

Updated 10 August 2020

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MARRAKECH: Abdenabi Nouidi sold his favorite horse for $150 to help feed the others on the team that pulls tourists in carriages through the buzzing streets of Marrakech, and he is still scared about the future for the others. The prospect of starvation looms for carriage horses and other animals normally used in Morocco's tourist mecca., since visitors have vanished during the coronavirus pandemic.

The Society for the Protection of Animals