Italy's long-standing troubles with wild boars are far from over, despite previous efforts to curb their presence in the country's cities A pack of wild boars was spotted making the rounds of ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Italy has said it will send soldiers across the country to hunt wild boar in an offensive intended to ...

A pack of wild boars was spotted making the rounds of several homes inthe southern region of Calabria, Italy's news agency ANSA reported. That makes Catanzaro the latest city to face a particularly ...

Italy has said it will send soldiers across the country to hunt wild boar in an offensive intended to protect its €8.2bn prosciutto and sausage industry from swine fever. The year-long ...

A new law allowing people to hunt wild boar with bows and arrows in a part of Italy has caused outrage, with critics condemning the practice as barbaric and “medieval”. The passing of the new ...

Due to the lack of sufficient means dedicated to the precise study of the phenomenon in Italy, reliable figures are not available. However, specialists estimate that the number of wild boars in ...

A new episode has opened in the Italian government's war on wild boar. Rome has decided to send in the army to deal with the overpopulation of wild boar in the countryside and on the outskirts of ...

And in early 2022, African swine fever was discovered in an Italian boar, raising fears that the wild animals could spread the fatal virus to domestic pigs raised for the meat industry.

The Italian Senate is rushing to approve the 2023 budget bill before the end of the year, amid controversy over the government's policies on cash payments and outrage over the inclusion of a law ...

Canada has raccoons tearing into backyard garbage bins. In Italy, the uninvited guests are wild boars; they are everywhere. The animals – cinghiali in Italian – are considered a public nuisance.

ROME (Reuters) - Italy's ruling right-wing coalition is set to loosen hunting rules to deal with what the country's farming lobby calls an "invasion" of wild boars. ROME (Reuters) – Italy’s ...

A tiny Italian island is being terrorised by a population of beach-dwelling wild boars that are attacking tourists, recently biting a boy on the genitals. About 80 wild boars live on Spargi ...