Formerly common as f.ck, Turtle Doves have declined by 80% since the 1980s. Nevertheless, they are still shot in their millions each year around the Med, especially on migration-hotspot islands like Malta and Cyprus.
In Italy alone, the 2021 bag limit is being set at 15 birds per hunter. With ~500k of them, that's up to 7.5m birds. The entire European breeding population is estimated at 6-11 million.
This is despite various international agreements (EU Birds Directive, UN Convention on Migratory Species, inter alia) mandating conservation.
Just in case anyone thought humanity was capable of learning/changing.
Turtle Dove: the new Passenger Pigeon
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Turtle Dove: the new Passenger Pigeon
We have the right to a clean, healthy, sustainable environment.
Re: Turtle Dove: the new Passenger Pigeon
Bollocks to the human race, I'm done with them.
It is so easily within our grasp to not do this sh.t, and yet.
It is so easily within our grasp to not do this sh.t, and yet.
Non fui. Fui. Non sum. Non curo.