Turtle dove hunting ban boosts western European population by 25%
Numbers of threatened turtle doves in western Europe increased by a quarter in just two years of a hunting moratorium, conservationists said.
The birds, which migrate from Africa each year to breed in European countries including the UK in the summer, saw numbers increase by 25% – an additional 400,000 breeding pairs – from 2021 to 2023.
Conservationists welcomed the “exciting” news, in a, and to confirm a fourth year of the pause in hunting turtle doves.
