Italy's famed wine region threatened by wild game

Gaiole in Chianti, Italy

FENCES are rising. There is talk of a brutal and destructive insurgency, invasions and a slaughter that could include hundreds of thousands in the years ahead.

If that sounds something like a war, the battlefield is the prized vineyards of Chianti, Italy's much vaunted wine region in the heart of the rolling hills of Tuscany.