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 One of the first wild wolf cubs to be born in Rome in 100 years was run over and killed last week in an incident that a wildlife charity suspects could have been deliberate. https://www.thelocal.it/20180416/rome-wolf-cub-killed-castel-di-guido Mon, 16 Apr 2018 14:20:41 +0200 rome-wolf-cub-killed-castel-di-guido The wolf is the symbolic animal of Rome, a city founded by two brothers who were raised by a she-wolf - or so the legend goes. https://www.thelocal.it/20170925/wolf-cubs-born-rome-after-100-years Mon, 25 Sep 2017 18:39:56 +0200 wolf-cubs-born-rome-after-100-years Italy on Thursday put on hold a controversial plan to cull five percent of its wolves, much to the relief of environmentalists and animal lovers who had mobilized across the country. https://www.thelocal.it/20170202/crying-wolf-protest-over-italys-plans-to-cull-wolves Thu, 02 Feb 2017 15:42:36 +0100 crying-wolf-protest-over-italys-plans-to-cull-wolves Italian police have seized hundreds of dangerous wolf-dog hybrids which had been illegally bred and sold for thousands of euros. https://www.thelocal.it/20170116/hundreds-of-wolf-dog-hybrids-seized-in-italy Mon, 16 Jan 2017 10:08:55 +0100 hundreds-of-wolf-dog-hybrids-seized-in-italy Florence's Ponte Vecchio is one of the world’s most famous bridges. Rebuilt after a flood in 1345, it was the only bridge across the Arno that the escaping Germans did not destroy during the Second World War. Many put the bridge’s survival down to a Nazi official, as Stephen Caruso reports. https://www.thelocal.it/20160525/did-a-nazi-official-save-florences-ponte-vecchio-from-destruction-gerhard-wolf-second-world-war-italy Wed, 25 May 2016 09:00:16 +0200 did-a-nazi-official-save-florences-ponte-vecchio-from-destruction-gerhard-wolf-second-world-war-italy The northeastern Italian region of Liguria is considering hunting its wolves due to a lack of funds available to reimburse farmers for the damage the animals wreak on livestock. https://www.thelocal.it/20160311/italian-region-asks-to-hunt-its-wolves-to-instead-paying-farmers-fo-damage Fri, 11 Mar 2016 13:48:10 +0100 italian-region-asks-to-hunt-its-wolves-to-instead-paying-farmers-fo-damage Activists offered a €5,000 reward to catch the killer of a wolf in central Italy as tensions between farmers and animal rights groups mounted, with the latter saying a "conspiracy of silence" among villagers is protecting those responsible. https://www.thelocal.it/20140729/conspiracy-of-silence-over-wolf-killer Tue, 29 Jul 2014 17:05:00 +0200 conspiracy-of-silence-over-wolf-killer A wolf killed on the edge of Turin has sparked fears that the animals could be adapting to urban life, Italian media reported on Tuesday. https://www.thelocal.it/20140312/dead-wolf-sparks-fear-in-turin Wed, 12 Mar 2014 11:45:00 +0100 dead-wolf-sparks-fear-in-turin Farmers in Tuscany are illegally killing wolves and leaving the carcasses in villages and towns in a form of protest against the deaths of their livestock. https://www.thelocal.it/20140115/italian-farmers-slaughter-wolves-in-protest Wed, 15 Jan 2014 13:30:00 +0100 italian-farmers-slaughter-wolves-in-protest A wolf, described as having "no fear of man", is continuing to terrorize people living in the Aveto valley, in the northern region of Liguria. https://www.thelocal.it/20131023/wolf-terrorizes-residents-in-liguria Wed, 23 Oct 2013 12:50:00 +0200 wolf-terrorizes-residents-in-liguria