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Travel news

You might soon need a ticket to visit one of Italy's most beautiful beaches

A town in Sardinia is considering selling entry tickets to the famed La Pelosa beach as a way to limit visitor numbers and raise funds.

Environment

An Italian lab could hold the key to saving the northern white rhino

Conservationists have successfully created two northern white rhino embryos in a key step towards pulling the species back from the brink of extinction, scientists in Italy said on Wednesday.

Environment

Sand stolen by tourists returned to Sardinian beaches

Sand seized from tourists' suitcases in Sardinia is making its way back to where it belongs: the Italian island's idyllic coastline.

Environment

Why Italian environmentalists want you to buy Sardinia's dunes

For sale: dunes, lightly used, hundreds of years old, one of a kind. You won't find the Chia dunes advertized anywhere, but they're already attracting buyers.

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Rare lynx sightings in northern Italy excite naturalists

Two rare sightings of a lynx in the autonomous northern Italian province of Trentino in August and September have cheered nature lovers, who had feared for its survival.