The government has extended for a year the ban on turtle dove hunting in France.
Streptopelia turtur
will
still not be able to be hunted until July 30, 2023, according to the decree of the Ministry of Ecological Transition.
The ban now continues for the third consecutive hunting campaign.
In 2020, the government authorized the shooting of 17,460 turtledoves.
But the Council of State, seized by several associations including the League for the Protection of Birds (LPO), had the decree suspended in September 2020.
Good news: dove hunting is suspended until July 30, 2023.
Remember that this is a species threatened with extinction and for which the EU is calling for an end to hunting - one wonders what the @gouvernementFR
is waiting to ban it.https://t.co/7AyWfFPREF
— PETA France (@PETA_France) August 19, 2022
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The Council of State, protector of biodiversity
In the summer of 2021, the government therefore issued an order suspending this hunt, which has just been extended.
“We are obviously satisfied that the guns are up,” reacted Yves Verdilhac, director general of the LPO.
“But we should at least extend this ban for 5 years and even remove the turtle dove from the list of huntable species.
»
The population of the turtle dove, a migratory bird, has fallen by 80% in Europe over the past four decades.
The species is subject to adaptive management measures in France.
The number of animals that can be killed is fixed after scientific expertise on the conservation status of the species.
In 2019, a scientific committee recommended no longer hunting the turtle dove or killing only 1.3% of the French population, or 18,300 birds that year.
Last June, the Council of State imposed on the government to suspend the hunting of another species, the capercaillie (or capercaillie), the largest wild land bird in Europe.
The administrative jurisdiction, which multiplies this type of decision, justifies them in the name of the State's obligations in terms of the protection of biodiversity and the preservation of wild species.
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