A list of the officially endorsed international studbooks is published in the latest edition of International Zoo Yearbook (2007, vol:41, pp: 426–448). These comprise figures for births, deaths, imports from the wild (if any) and numbers of animals registered based on the studbook keepers’ annual reports for 2006. Two studbooks listed for Columbidae:

Mauritius Pink Pigeon Columba (Nesoenas) mayeri
Studbook Keeper: David F. Jeggo
Curator of Birds, Durrell Wildlife Conservation, Jersey, UK

Crowned Pigeons Goura spp
Studbook Keeper: David L. Wetzel
General Curator, Jackson Zoological Park, Mississippi, USA.

Timor-Leste (formerly East Timor) has declared its first national park - just five years as an independent nation. At over 123,600 ha tThe Nino Konis Santana National Park links together three of the island’s sixteen Important Bird Areas to protect a number of threatened species found nowhere else on Earth. The National Park includes 25 bird species restricted to Timor and neighbouring islands including the Endangered Timor Green-pigeon Treron psittaceus, the Endangered Timor Imperial-pigeon Ducula cineracea and the Near Threatened Slaty Cuckoo-dove Turacoena modesta (BirdLife 03.08.2007).

The European Commission took a strong stance on the 27th June by stepping up ongoing infringement proceedings against ten EU Member States for failing to implement the EU Birds Directive. Cyprus receives a first warning letter for having allowed spring hunting of European Turtle Dove Streptopelia turtur - like Malta, which has already received a warning on this issue and risks being taken to European Court if it does not ban spring hunting once and for all. Cyprus, together with Latvia, Lithuania, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, Hungary and Malta, also received a first warning letter from the Commission on insufficient SPA designation. Slovakia received another first warning letter because of logging allowed in a protected forest site. Germany, Austria and Poland are taken to the European Court for insufficient SPA designation (BirdLife 27.06.2007).