Ananova:

A man who says his job in a hospital "burned him out" has taken to living in the trees of Rome's main park to escape stress.

Forty-six-year-old Antonio Mollo, who is believed to have been a doctor or nurse in Turin, has been labelled "Urban Tarzan" and "Crusoe" by local media after being spotted by a woman who first thought he was a cat stuck up a tree.

Mollo spends his days bare-chested, playing a harmonica and lives by foraging for berries, nuts, mushrooms and wild greens which grow in the park in the Villa Borghese.

He wears torn green trousers, bandanna, trainers and a mossy complexion. He says the trees give him power and keep him young.

Rome's Il Messaggero newspaper has carried a front-page editorial highlighting the increasing number of recorded cases of what they call "burn-out syndrome".

Mollo, who has a cardboard box headquarters behind a statue of composer Gaetano Donizetti, said: "I was stressed out. I was working in a hospital ward bringing people out of comas. I was burnt out, I was tired of the daily grind, home, commuting, work, home, and so I left and eventually came here."

Eating fungo porcino - a wild mushroom found in the park and which is very expensive in the city's restaurants - Mollo added: "I felt a need to be among nature. Unless we begin to worry about what we eat and breathe, we're all going to be in trouble."