Animals
Every year the parish priest of the church of S. Eusebio al Esquilino celebrates a special mass for the feast day of St Antony Abbot, which falls on 17 January. This year the mass will be held on Sunday 15 January at 10....
There were scenes from the Far West on Romes ring road at the end of November when a young buffalo escaped onto one of the citys busiest thoroughfares from a nearby farm. The animal, frightened by the traffic, galloped a...
A species of fresh-water crabs (Potaman fluviatile) is to be found in Italy in rivers from Sicily to Tuscany but they are becoming rare, or so it was thought. Now three zoologists, Massimiliano Scalici, Daniele Macale an...
The life of domestic animals in the city of Rome should be revolutionised by the introduction of numerous new animal-protection rules passed by the city council. These forbid the use of electric or strangler collars and...
For the first time for several years the number of dogs adopted from the city council dog pound in August exceeded the number of strays taken into care. A total of 168 dogs were found homes, while 157 abandoned animals w...
There is good news for Italian wildlife according to Fulco Pratesi, president of the Italian branch of the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF). Despite forest fires, illegal building in protected areas, hunting and shooting...
The first pelican to be seen in Rome for over a hundred years was found in mid-January on the Tiber a few kilometres from the historic centre by a doctor out canoeing. Is it a permanent visitor, brought to Rome by global...
The annual church service for the blessing of domestic animals will take place on Sunday 16 January in the church of S. Eusebio at Piazza Vittorio at 10.00. Everyone invited to take their pets along to the service and th...
The province of Treviso has bought six small donkeys to crop the verges on the provincial roads and roundabouts. The animals will save the province a considerable sum since cutting the grass mechanically costs 100 milli...
The Italian anti-vivisection league, LAV, has published a report which shows an increase in the number of animals, fish, reptiles and birds being kept in Italian homes, 45,5 million in total this year, 1.5 million more t...
Rome is getting ready for the arrival of some 4 million starlings that migrate from north to south Europe with the arrival of winter. Many Romans will remember them from the magnificent patterns they make in the sky as t...
A form of mange is attacking the stambecchi or ibex, a protected species of rock goat that lives in the Alps. The outbreak is centred in the area of the Marmolada and Valle del Franzedas in the Dolomite mountains near Be...
Hungry bears.
Fruit- and vegetable-eating bears from the Marsica woods in the Abruzzi region of Italy are being threatened with extinction. The Marsica forest lies within the boundary of the Abruzzo National Park, in th...
A new law has been passed for the protection of animals in Italy. In future anyone killing, abandoning, ill-treating, using in cruel competitions or betting on a domestic animal will be committing a criminal offence, pun...
Every year in Italy more than 600,000 wild boar cause more than 5 million of damage to agriculture. The largest numbers are concentrated in Tuscany, with around 130,000 causing damage amounting to 3 million per year. At...
Until 27 June it is possible to visit one of the largest deposits of prehistoric elephants skeletons in Europe.
The extraordinary remains were discovered by archaeologists and palaeontologists in 1984, in the western pa...
The Torre Argentina cat sanctuary in Rome will hold its 7th annual fund raising gala on Friday 28 May at 19.00 at Villa S. Urbano, Via Appia Pignatelli 65. As in previous years a silent auction and grand raffle will be h...
Rome city authorities have arrived at an agreement with the residents and shop and restaurant owners in the area of S. Lorenzo to close the zone to all but local traffic four nights a week after a successful experimenta...
The traditional blessing of the animals for the feast day of S. Anthony Abbot (17 Jan) will take place on Sun 18 Jan at the church of S. Eusebio all'Esquilino (Piazza Vittorio corner Via Napoleone III) in Rome. The celeb...
Following a spate of attacks on people by pit-bulls across the country this summer, the government has categorised 100 breeds of dog as "dangerous" and introduced new rules and penalties for their owners. Children and cr...
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