Rare mouflon sheep on Italian island of Giglio at centre of culling row

Activists threaten legal action over mouflon hunting on Tuscan island as part of EU-funded biodiversity project

Animal rights activists have threatened legal action against the national park that runs a group of islands off Italy's Tuscan coast as controversy intensifies over the culling of rare mouflon sheep on the tiny island of Giglio.

Hunters arrived on Giglio this week and have so far killed four mouflons, a wild sheep native to the Caspian region that is thought to be an ancestor of domestic breeds.