Press Releases
PARTRIDGE Farm Walk at Balgonie Estate
10 October 2017Join the members of the project team as they guide you round Balgonie Estate, one of the 10 key demonstration sites of the Interreg PARTRIDGE project.
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Scottish Government advisor visits key PARTRIDGE demonstration site
20 September 2017Whitburgh Farms recently hosted Professor Russel Griggs, Chair of the Scottish Government’s Regulatory Review Group and recently appointed to oversee the review of Scotland’s Greening measures. This w…
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Danish Environment Minister pays special visit to GWCT-run demonstration farm
18 September 2017Members from the Danish parliament visited one of the Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust’s demonstration farms to find out about a crucial conservation project.
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Launch of the PARTRIDGE PROJECT in Belgium
08 September 2017The Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust (GWCT)-led PARTRIDGE Project was officially launched at one of its two Belgian sites on 31st August.
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First results from PARTRIDGE project
05 September 2017PARTRIDGE started in the end of 2016. The goal of the four year (2017-2020) project is to demonstrate that modern agriculture and biodiversity go hand in hand. At least 7% optimal habitat will be crea…
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Hunters provide extra partridge habitat at PARTRIDGE demonstration site Ramskapelle in Belgium
02 August 2017The polders of Ramskapelle is one of the two Belgium project areas in the North Sea Region interreg project PARTRIDGE.
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PARTRIDGE project introduced to cereal farmers at Balgonie Estate
24 July 2017On a dull, humid day earlier this month, around 50 farmers visited Balgonie Estates in Scotland, one of the PARTRIDGE project’s demonstration sites.
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New PARTRIDGE crops are growing in Scotland
20 July 2017The PARTRIDGE project, part-funded by the EU North Sea Region Development Fund, which GWCT is running with many partners across northern Europe, is now well underway.
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VIDEO: Beetle Banks in the Netherlands
12 July 2017Dutch NSR PARTRIDGE project partner Brabants Landschap have released an excellent short video clip about the establishment and use of beetle banks and wild flower mixes as part of a ground breaking in…
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