If you're not a hunter, the only way to tell for sure that dove-hunting season is approaching ... the world's symbol of peace — hunting is a dying sport, in general, by many accounts.

A turtle dove perched in a hawthorn bush in Bedfordshire (Ben Andrew/RSPB/PA) France, Spain and Portugal paused hunting of the species in 2021 to allow their recovery. Prior to 2018 an ...

Numbers of threatened turtle doves in western Europe have rapidly recovered after a hunting ban was introduced ... As part of Operation Turtle Dove, UK conservation groups are working with farmers ...