#XtraXmas #TurtleDoves From my two paper mache sets of Christmas ornaments depicting the 12 Days of Christmas. Two turtle doves. #EastCoastKin #Drawing #Painting #PaperMache #ChristmasOrnaments

Conservationists race to rescue England’s #turtleDoves from #extinction
Hundreds are being released across the country to reverse 98% decline in mating pairs since the 1970s

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jun/20/conservationists-race-to-rescue-englands-turtle-doves-from-extinction #science #conservation #birds

Conservationists race to rescue England’s turtle doves from extinction

Hundreds are being released across the country to reverse 98% decline in mating pairs since the 1970s

The Guardian
New on my #blog: https://aspi.blog/2025/05/05/pensthorpe-5-the-waders-aviary/
The fifth and final instalment of my mini-series about the West Norfolk Autism Group outing to Pensthorpe on Saturday, dedicated to the Waders Aviary.
#Autism #Pensthorpe #Nature #NaturePhotography #birds #waders #avocets #BlackWingedStilts #TurtleDoves
Pensthorpe 5 – The Waders Aviary

Concluding my mini-series about the West Norfolk Autism Group outing to Pensthorpe with a post dedicated to the Waders Aviary.

aspiblog
Turtle doves to be shot for sport again across Europe as EU lifts hunting ban

Ban in place since 2021 has increased numbers of globally vulnerable pigeon species that is close to extinction in UK

The Guardian
So, for most of my naive childhood, I prayed / wished / asked Santa for one thing -- #PeaceOnEarth. Sigh... I still wish for that. And more #TurtleDoves. And more of everything that's part of #MotherNature to survive and thrive. I suppose that's too much to ask of an imaginary being, but not too much for us to demand for ourselves and #MotherEarth.
Mistodon: #OnTheSecondDayOfChristmas AdeptApril drew for us two #TurtleDoves in an #ANSIart screen from Storm BBS.

Bid to save early #rewilding site that hosts rare #nightingales and #TurtleDoves

#Conservationists have launched a Β£1.5 million appeal to buy #farmland that was left to #nature 37 years ago

by Emily Beament
Tuesday 18 June 2024

"A farm left to nature years before 'rewilding' rose to prominence has become a unique and important site for wildlife, say conservationists launching a bid to save it.

"The owner of Strawberry Hill, near Bedford, stopped farming his land 37 years ago, with once-arable fields reverting to #scrubland that is now a haven for a host of #wildlife including threatened nightingales, #cuckoos and turtle doves.

"But the 150-hectare (377-acre) site has no official designations or protections, and following the owner’s death, there were fears the land could be sold and returned to agriculture.

"After gaining a temporary stay of execution for the site, the #WildlifeTrust for Beds, Cambs and Northants (#BCN) has raised enough money to buy half the land.

"Now the conservation charity is launching a Β£1.5 million appeal to secure the whole site, saving the habitat and its rich wildlife and providing a 'unique' opportunity to have a decades-long head start on rewilding the land for nature."

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/strawberry-hill-wildlife-trust-bedford-west-sussex-bedfordshire-b2563664.html

#StrawberryHillsForever #Rewilding #RewildingUK #BedfordEngland

Bid to save early rewilding site that hosts rare nightingales and turtle doves

Conservationists have launched a Β£1.5 million appeal to buy farmland that was left to nature 37 years ago

The Independent
When it's cold outside. #turtledoves, #wildlife, #creature