In 1996 Ron managed to win the Sanremo Festival with the song "I would like to meet you in a hundred years“, Performed together with Tosca. Certainly the artist was not referring to Lupo, even if the years that separate the last sightings of these animals in the Salento area from the more recent ones. In short, after a century the wolves are back in the Lecce area, but how can this certainty be explained? Until now there had been various reports and sightings, but now the scientific proof, the first ever.
In practice, i veterinary doctors area C of the ASL service of Lecce examined the carcass of a sheep, found in Bonocore, a place where reports had been frequent. Well, the DNA test leaves no room for doubt, the biological trace is that of a wolf. Several breeders had raised the alarm sometime in Regional Park of Costa Otranto-Santa Maria di Leuca and Bosco di Tricase, which covers an area of almost 3200 hectares.
It is no coincidence that fauna experts and researchers have been commissioned by the same park authority to study the reappearance of the wolf in Salento. Among other things, we can no longer speak of disappearance also because the camera traps have immortalized a 12-month-old puppy and two adults, that is to say a presence at least stable.