VATICAN CITY, Nov 15 (Reuters) – It may have been a not so merry Christmas for the Vatican this 12 months.
In an indication of seasonal good will, the city of Agnone within the mountainous Molise area of central Italy had agreed to present one in all its prize timber to the city of Rosello within the neighbouring Abruzzo area in order that Rosello may have the honour of donating it to Pope Francis this Christmas.
Rosello has timber however apparently not as majestic.
However simply because the lumberjacks have been about to begin felling a 54-metre (177 foot) fir that had been chosen, forest rangers intervened to cease them, saying the tree was 200 years outdated and a protected species in a nature reserve.
Officers in each cities have been embarrassed as a result of neither aspect had achieved their homework correctly.
Forest officers saved the day, providing to present Rosello a tree from their property in one other a part of the Abruzzo mountains in order that the city can donate it to the pope.
“Will probably be a contented Christmas in spite of everything,” Col. Gianluca Grossi of the realm’s forest police advised Reuters.
Reporting by Philip Pullella
Modifying by Gareth Jones
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