Turtle dove hunting ban boosts western European population by 25%
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Conservationists say now is the time to ‘double-down’ on efforts to provide habitat to help the migratory birds breed in the UK.
Numbers of threatened turtle doves in western Europe increased by a quarter in just two years of a hunting moratorium, conservationists said.