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Horses and mules have long drawn tourist carriages through Jordan’s ancient city of Petra, but animal rights concerns are driving a project to start replacing them with electric vehicles. A small fleet of 10 rechargeable e-carts now take visitors through the rose-coloured Siq or gorge leading to the famed capital of the Nabateans, which dates back to the first century BC. “There is no pollution or smoke” and the change has “reduced the cases of animal mistreatment,” said Suleiman Farajat, head of the Petra Development and Tourism Regional Authority. The golf buggy-style vehicles have less impa…