High above the tree line in northern Italy, a wildlife photographer scanning a steep rock face for ibex noticed something ...

An Italian animal rights group is preparing a criminal complaint against US President Donald Trump’s eldest son for illegally hunting protected species, local media reported on Tuesday. Blasting a ...

Brown bears living close to Italian villages have quietly rewritten the usual script of human–wildlife conflict. Over ...

An investigation has been launched after the bodies of dozens of dogs, cats and rabbits were found dumped in an Italian lake. Officials suspect the dogs were bred for illegal fights, but other animals ...

A jockey rides bareback around a makeshift race course set up in the central square of Siena, Italy in June 2011 for the Palio horse race. A series of historic Italian feasts involving animals ...

When 25-year-old veterinary student Caterina Simonsen posted an update on a Facebook page supporting the use of animals in medical research before Christmas, she was trying to say how lucky she felt ...

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Thanks to the absence of tourists and much-reduced traffic due to Italy's quarantine measures to tackle the recent Coronavirus outbreak, pollution levels drop across many Italian cities and rarely ...

Be careful when saying someone has 'snake relatives' in Italian. Photo: Martin Cathrae/Flickr You may think you have mastered the Italian language, only to be stumped when someone starts referring to ...

Residents in the prosperous Italian town of Reggio Emilia were outraged yesterday after its council adopted an animal rights bylaw that bans boiling live lobster as "useless torture". Supporters of ...

ROME: A series of historic Italian feasts involving animals including the famous Palio horse race in Siena are being excluded from a new list of celebrations compiled by Italy's tourism ministry, ...