The Mayor of Alicudi ask you to “adopt a goat”

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The mayor of a remote Italian island overrun by wild goats has offered to give the animals away to anyone willing to take one in. Riccardo Gullo came up with the idea after a recent census estimated the number of goats on the three-square mile Alicudi, the smallest of Sicily’s Aeolian archipelago, was six times the island’s year-round population of 100. The animals, adept at navigating Alicudi’s steep cliffs, once lived harmoniously alongside the human inhabitants and

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