A bitter legal battle over the culling of brown bears in the Italian Alps has been inflamed by the discovery of the decomposing remains of an adult male.While forestry officials said that its wounds pointed to an attack by a fellow bear, animal rights groups claimed that it was shot by hunters egged
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The Italian Senate voted to approve an amendment to the budget law that will close the remaining ten mink farms in Italy within six months and ban fur farming throughout the country. The decision came after talks with Humane Society International/Europe, which offered strategies in its report Mink breeding in Italy: Mapping and future perspectives.