ROME, Dec 21 (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. The boars are common in ...

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 ...

A beautiful island in Italy is being so overrun by goats that it’s becoming dangerous, causing panic for locals. Alicudi is ...

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 ...

ROME — Wild boars have emerged as a force of chaos in Italy’s capital over the past decade, feasting on refuse, disrupting traffic and encroaching on the Vatican. They are seen as symbols 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.

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 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 ...