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Article: Florence puts ban on feeding pigeons
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- October 11, 2006
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Florence puts ban on feeding pigeons
ROME, Oct. 11 (Xinhua) -- Florence's administrators have banned
people from feeding pigeons in the city's picturesque piazzas and
from giving bread to the ducks in the River Arno, according to
Italy's ANSA news agency on Wednesday.
Claudio Del Lungo, the councillor in charge of environmental
issues, has issued an ordinance which envisages 50-euro fines for
anyone caught throwing crumbs at the pigeons that flock in central
squares.
"The habit of feeding pigeons continuously in our streets has
created a new a form of litter," he said, explaining that the uneaten
pieces of bread and seeds left on the ground attracted rats and
insects.
"As well as ...