https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Italy in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed An Italian man shot dead his father on Sunday during a hunting expedition in southern Italy after mistaking him for a wild boar, according to media reports. https://www.thelocal.it/20190923/italian-hunter-shoots-father-dead-after-mistaking-him-for-boar Mon, 23 Sep 2019 13:26:37 +0200 italian-hunter-shoots-father-dead-after-mistaking-him-for-boar They have been spotted in central Rome, inside residential courtyards and even swimming 6km off the coast of Puglia. It seems that nothing can stop the proliferation of Italy's wild boars, except maybe birth control tablets. https://www.thelocal.it/20151002/italys-wild-boars-go-on-the-pill Fri, 02 Oct 2015 13:06:41 +0200 italys-wild-boars-go-on-the-pill It was probably the last thing a group of Italian fishermen expected to see – an exhausted wild boar swimming in circles, 6km off the coast of Taranto in Italy's southern Puglia region. https://www.thelocal.it/20150929/wild-boar-found-swimming-6km-off-italian-coast Tue, 29 Sep 2015 13:02:56 +0200 wild-boar-found-swimming-6km-off-italian-coast The sighting of wild boars in and around Rome has provoked fresh calls for the boar population, which has exploded in recent years across Italy, to be better controlled. https://www.thelocal.it/20150909/rome-boar-sightings-renew-calls-for-cull Wed, 09 Sep 2015 12:37:08 +0200 rome-boar-sightings-renew-calls-for-cull The deaths of two Italians killed in separate highway collisions with wild boars in Tuscany and Abruzzo this week have provoked fresh calls for a cull to bring the number of the animals under control. https://www.thelocal.it/20150821/italy-wild-boar-deaths-provoke-calls-for-cull Fri, 21 Aug 2015 12:53:46 +0200 italy-wild-boar-deaths-provoke-calls-for-cull A 77-year-old man died after being attacked by a wild boar while out walking his dogs near his home in Cefalù, Sicily. https://www.thelocal.it/20150810/wild-boar-kills-sicilian-pensioner Mon, 10 Aug 2015 11:49:11 +0200 wild-boar-kills-sicilian-pensioner A man is recovering in hospital after being attacked by a wild boar outside a nursery in Umbria. https://www.thelocal.it/20150128/wild-boar-attacks-man-outside-nursery-in-umbria Wed, 28 Jan 2015 11:32:00 +0100 wild-boar-attacks-man-outside-nursery-in-umbria