Animal rights activists appeal island mouflon cull

(ANSA) - ROME, NOV 24 - 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. (ANSA).