Italian animal rights activists have
appealed to the European Parliament against a cull of mouflon
sheep on Giglio Island off Tuscany.
In their appeal to the EP's environment committee, activists
including the anti-vivisection league LAV say the argument that
the sheep are threatening the island's fragile agricultural
system is false.
They say Giglio's farmers have themselves recognised this.
The mouflon is a wild sheep native to the Caspian region from
eastern Turkey, Armenia, Azerbaijan to Iran, which has spread to
Italian islands including Sardinia. It is thought to be the
ancestor of all modern domestic sheep breeds.
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