Four non-governmental environmental organizations – Quercus, League for the Protection of Nature, FAPAS and SPEA – deliver today, 28 July, National Day for Nature Conservation, the petition «Rola-brava in extinction – Ban on hunting now!», addressed to the Minister of Agriculture and the Sea Assunção Cristas.
The common turtledove or wild turtledove (Streptopelia turtur) is a migratory species that, according to the four NGOs, “is disappearing at a galloping and worrying rate in Portugal and in Europe, and its population is estimated to have decreased by 70% in the last 10 years”.
To make matters worse, "in Portugal, turtle dove hunting is common during the month of August, a period during which there are many turtledoves nesting, with chicks in the nest and occasionally late-laying or second-laying eggs." add.
The four NGOs that subscribe to this petition, which has the support of more than 5000 subscribers, consider that «the irresponsibility and insensitivity shown in this matter by successive governments can contribute, in the short term, to a situation of extinction of Rola-brava in Portugal ».
A petition was launched last year, and Quercus also promoted a campaign for the prohibition of hunting this species.
Comments