Gili Islands is home to the long suffering and poorly treated carriage ponies. they capture ponies from neighboring islands and put them to work sometimes up to eighteen hours a day. They are emaciated, have little rest, drink salt water and have no medical care. They have no pasture in which to graze and they are always hitched up to a carriage. They live a miserable existence because their owners do not know how to care for them. The ponies are moneymakers, worked to the bone and then slaughtered and replaced when they cannot pull any more. They were once wild horses that were captured and now brought to the Gili Islands to begin their life of slavery, through the day they carry heavy tourists and tourists luggage on the sand to and from hotels, and at night they work at construction sites. the gilli island eco trust (http://giliecotrust.com) are helping imporove the living conditions of these work horses. we must help the gili eco trust raise funds to continue their work to save the horses
