When Allain Bougrain-Dubourg took over as chairman of the Bird Protection League (LPO) in 1986, larks, partridges and yellow buntings were still kings of the field. Forty years later, this agricultural species has experienced such a drastic decline that the slightest indication of a revival in their population is seen as a victory by the most renowned ornithologists.
“However, we feel that there is recovery,” said the president of PUT, who was amazed to find the results of the research published in the journal Environmental Pollution. Nearly four years after the ban on neonicotinoids in France, we found that bird numbers were greater in rural areas.
