Animals
A report by Italian economic think-tank ISAE reveals that 74 per cent of Italians live with less money than they feel is required to lead a dignified existence. The study established a minimum income of
People who cannot take on the responsibility of owning a dog full-time can now spend an hour walking one of the residents of the dogs
Ten baby tortoises of the critically endangered Egyptian, or Kleinmann, species have hatched at Rome
The Canile Comunale della Muratella, which houses around 2,000 abandoned dogs in need of a new home, will be participating in the international pet adoptathon day on Saturday 5 May with non-stop opening from 10.00 until...
Animal rights activists, Italian state broadcaster RAI and the minister for the environment, Alfonso Pecoraro Scanio, have presented a new charter that will prevent animals from being exploited on television. The guideli...
The horses of Rome are still not wearing their specially-designed pants. Last summer, an agreement was signed between the city council and the Rome carriage drivers trade union (associazione sindacale dei vetturini roman...
From 17 September, according to a ruling by the high court (Corte di Cassazione), it is obligatory to keep all dogs which are more than eight months old and stand more than 30cms high at the shoulder-blades on a leash wh...
Horse-drawn carriage drivers are protesting against a new regulation which aims to ban their circulation from 13.00-16.00 throughout the summer period.
Irate horse and coach drivers took to trotting their horses through...
There are about 300,000 cats in Rome of which 120,000 live wild in almost 2,000 cat colonies, according to research by the Centro studi investimenti sociale Censis on wild and domestic cats living in the city. Most of th...
Rome city police have raided a pub in the Prati area of the city and have taken away the first prize in a raffle which was being organised by the owner of the bar. The prize, a regal python, the largest of the python spe...
The first cases of avian flu have been confirmed in Italy, in two swans found dead near Messina and Catania in Sicily. Another dead swan near Lecce in Puglia is suspected of having the H5N1 virus although this has still...
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...
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