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Get Your Goat: Italian Island Overrun Offers to Give Them Away
Get Your Goat: Italian Island Overrun by The Animals Offers to Give Them Away
Mayor makes offer after number of goats on Alicudi reaches six times human population The Guardian 4 APR 2024 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. 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. The animals, adept at navigating Alicudi’s steep cliffs, once lived harmoniously alongside the human inhabitants and became as much of a tourist attraction as its dormant volcano. But their number has grown so rapidly in recent years that they started to gravitate from their usual abode at the top of the island towards the inhabited area, damaging lush green vegetation, causing havoc in gardens and allotments, knocking away portions of stone walls and even wandering into people’s homes, prompting demands for a solution. Alicudi, which is a two to three-hour boat ride from mainland Sicily, falls under the administration of the larger island of Lipari. The “adopt a goat” initiative was deemed to be the best way of managing the issue in the most compassionate way. |
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