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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Angela Giuffrida in Rome

Get your goat: Italian island overrun by the animals offers to give them away

Goat standing in a field
The number of goats has grown so rapidly in recent years that they started to gravitate to inhabited areas, causing havoc in gardens and even wandering into people’s homes. Photograph: Digital Zoo/Getty Images

The mayor of a remote Italian island overrun by wild goats has offered to give the animals away to anyone willing to take one in.

Riccardo Gullo came up with the novel idea after a recent census estimated the number of goats on the five-square kilometre Alicudi, the smallest of Sicily’s Aeolian archipelago, was six times the island’s year-round population of 100.

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