The Dovecote Project is a re-domestication project targeting the urban feral pigeon population by introducing policies and infrastructure that reduce human-animal conflict, ensure animal health, and encourage re-adoption of the pigeon as a domestic companion and pet.
The core of the Dovecote Project is a system of low-cost communal lofts erected in a data-driven approach near roosting hotspots so as to provide safe and accessible points of contact and refuge, enabling diet monitoring, health and hygiene tracking, population surveillance, and analytical management.
The long-term goals of the project also include phased and sensitive feral population control, working with municipal administrations and civic bodies to enact policies that reduce political and socio-economic hazards to urban ecosystem balance, and minimum-harm deterrence and removal of unregulated wild nesting zones.
The best-case vision of the project is a complete elimination of the feral pigeon population through re-domestication and the encouragement of adoption and responsible breeding, as well as the creation of infrastructure and policies facilitating the same.