PETA Releases Shocking New Footage of ‘Graveyard’ of Horses and Camels Near GEM, Calls On Egypt’s President to Act

PETA Calls On Egypt’s President to Help Fund a Sanctuary for the Animals

Cairo — Ahead of the official opening of the new Grand Egyptian Museum on November 1, PETA sent a letter to President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi today alerting him to damning new footage of dead horses—used to give tourists rides through Egypt’s historic sites—piled up in a secret graveyard just beyond the new museum’s walls. In the letter, PETA asks the president to allocate a portion of the museum’s profits to create a sanctuary that would relocate and retire the animals on the Giza plateau. Video footage and photos are available here and here.

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As PETA’s video reveals, horses and camels forced to give rides near the pyramids are dying in record numbers, with many severely emaciated and suffering from untreated wounds. Over the past six years, PETA has documented that starving horses and camels are punched, kicked, and whipped and that they are forced to carry people in blistering heat without shade or adequate water and then left for dead or sent to slaughter when they are too old, sick, or injured to be profitable.

In the letter, PETA Senior Vice President Jason Baker urges Egypt’s president to “use this historic moment to honor Egypt’s past and its boundless capacity for mercy and progress” and to “allocate a portion of the museum’s profits to create a sanctuary that would relocate and retire every single horse and camel from the pyramids area, giving these sensitive, complex beings who have labored and suffered there the chance to finally live free and joyfully.”

After hearing from PETA entities, more than 50 tour operators and travel companies—including Airbnb, Marriott, British Airways Holidays, Abercrombie & Kent Travel Group, and TCS World Travel—have stopped offering camel rides in front of the Giza pyramids. PETA encourages its members and supporters to call on Egyptian officials to end this cruelty and impose a ban on using horses and camels to entertain and transport visitors at the pyramids and other tourist sites.

PETA—whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to use for entertainment or abuse in any other way”—points out that Every Animal Is Someone. For more information, please visit PETAAsia.com or follow PETA on X, Facebook, or Instagram.

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