Eight Apennine chamois – Rupycapra pyrenaica ornata – have recently been released in the Monte Bove area of the Monti Sibillini National Park in central Italy. Until now this rare chamois (only 800 survive in Abruzzo) has been breeding in a special enclosed area near Bolognola within the park  borders (visited in Walk 4 of Italy’s Sibillini National Park by regular Cicerone author Gillian Price). The park authorities request walkers around Monte Bove not to approach the animals while they’re ‘settling in’ and not to take dogs walking with them.

For more information, photos and YouTube footage, visit the Park website www.sibillini.net (Italian language) and click on the ‘Bentornato camoscio’ box at the top.