Christopher
Hope, chief
political correspondent
8 JULY
2019 • 8:00PM
The
curlew should be seen as the "panda of UK conservation", ministers
have said, after a 10 Downing Street summit heard that it will be extinct in
some parts of the UK within 15 years.
The first
ever 'curlew summit' at 10 Downing St on Monday called for urgent action to
save the long-beaked bird after an alarming slump in numbers.
It recommended
that walkers could be forced to keep their dogs on leads to protect nesting
grounds while farmers should be helped in other ways not to harvest sileage.
There are
about 68,000 breeding pairs of the hook-beaked bird in the UK but its
population has almost halved since the mid-90s due to predators eating their
young and a reduction in good-quality breeding...
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