16,826 animals poisoned in Italy in fifteen years, an underground supply chain of banned substances, near-total impunity. The full text of Rewilding Apennines’ address, with a concrete proposal: to extend the logic of Italy’s wildfire law to poisoning.

On 6 March, 25 griffon vultures from Spain arrived in the Apennines. It is the beginning of a three-year initiative to strengthen a still fragile population and restore essential natural processes across the landscape — part of a far greater picture.

There is no end to the indignation at the discovery of wild animals that have most likely been poisoned by real criminals.