UK 'Sporting Agency' advertising Turtle Dove Shooting weekends!!!!!!!

ABSOLUTELY HORRIFIC!!!!!!!!

Phil Baber on BIRDFORUM highlighted this here: http://www.birdforum.net/showthread.php?t=238285

PLEASE ring or and email all the people associated with this company to express your horror at the Turtle Dove shooting 'long weekends' they are advertising!!!!!!!!

http://www.davis-bowring.co.uk/index.php/sporting/Moroccan-Shooting.html

PLEASE highlight this on your website and email it all friends and associates, add to social sites: facebook, blogger, twitter, stumbleupon etc and to the RSPB. Also note that SAVILLS!!!!! is linked at the bottom of their website - email them too!!!

I cannot believe that a UK company is advertising long weekends away in Morocco to shoot a bird which is in serious decline throughout Europe - absolutely sickening beyond belief!

Here is my email to them:

22nd August 2012

Dear Sirs/Madams

As I am sure you are aware by now, there are alot of unhappy conservationists, ornithologists and birders who are shocked and deeply saddened at what they are reading this evening and I too was horrified by trips being offered on your website.

I read the following on birdforum.net:
http://www.birdforum.net/showthread.php?p=2520775&posted=1#post2520775 of your intention to run a trip to Morocco to shoot Turtle Doves. I quote from your trip on offer "Numbers shot are carefully controlled to maintain a healthy wild population" – that's the point - there isn't a healthy wild population ANYWHERE!!!!!! These birds are in serious decline and the RSPB consider that without urgent action it could be lost as a breeding bird in the UK in less than 10 years.

In reaction to this the RSPB and partners launched "Operation Turtle Dove". See the following links.
http://operationturtledove.org/ and also see the following:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/may/10/rspb-turtle-dove
http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/18006233

To read that a UK company is offering trips to shoot the very birds, that we as a country are trying to protect is beyond all belief! EVERY bird that is shot, brings this bird closer to extinction. Reading in your 'Shoot Organiser pdf" that one of the items you suggest to bring is a "Clicker to count your birds although as they are retrieved the birds are laid out by your position in an individual tableaux" turns my stomach!!!

Your intention of these organised shooting parties is being sent by hundreds of people and highlighted all over the internet on websites, blogs, facebook, twitter etc etc and is being sent to RSPB, MP's, authoritative figures and to all conservationists.

I urge you to withdraw this trip and any future trips to shoot Turtle Doves and any other wild birds immediately.

Yours Sincerely

Penny Clarke
NORFOLK