Rome is being overrun by animals. The return of wolves to the city's fringes could be a solution to the problem of four trotters invading the city.
According to the newspaper, there could be thousands of pigs roaming the streets of Rome, scaring the citizens and eating the garbage left on the roads.
A woman in a supermarket car park near Rome was surrounded by a group of pigs and forced to give up her shopping.
It's not just their stature and sharp tusks that frighten the locals, but the soaring cases of African swine fever affecting domestic pigs, which pose a serious threat to the production of Italy's famed prosciutto ham.
According to The Times, the Italian government's anti-boar tsar said that fencing had been put up along Rome's ring road.
He said that the plan was for everyone inside the ring road to get sick and die.
The Lazio region around Rome was given extra hunting permits in order to destroy 50,000 people.
This isn't an answer to Rome's problems. The head of Rome's parks and nature reserves said it was difficult to seal off the ring road.
Environmental activists have staged protests and torn down fencing in opposition to this approach.
Italy's growing population of wolves could be an answer to the marauding pig.
The first proof of a wolf's presence in Rome in more than a century was found in the summer of 2013).
Gubbiotti told The Times that the wolves are now being seen on the edge of Rome, where they could be attacking wild pigs.
In the Insugherata nature reserve near Rome, he said there were traces of the animal's remains in their feces.
Gubbiotti said that the equilibrium is about to arrive.
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