(ANSA) - ROME, JAN 18 - Eight wild boar were caught in an
iconic Rome villa park on Wednesday.
The hungry animals were roaming free in the vast grounds of the
Villa Doria Pamphili, a seventeenth-century villa with what is
today the largest landscaped public park in Rome.
Animal rights activists protested the capture operation and
tried to hinder it, without success.
One of the animals was put down as it proved too aggressive to
capture.
Italy has ordered a cull of increasingly rampant boar and is
training hunters to shoot the animals, which they may then eat.
(ANSA).