Press Releases
Creating the ultimate grey partridge pin
10 September 2020The GWCT PARTRIDGE project interns Lucy Robertson and Molly Crookshank, have worked together to produce a beautiful flying grey partridge enamel pin, to raise funds for the PARTRIDGE project.
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Scottish PARTRIDGE demo site taking part in novel cropping practices
02 September 2020For a number of years, PARTRIDGE site Balgonie Estate has been working hard to establish high quality habitat on 7% of the demonstration area. This year, the farm is taking part in some new projects…
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The PARTRIDGE project is proud to publish ‘Farming with Nature’
18 August 2020
This week, the PARTRIDGE project is proud to publish ‘Farming with Nature’. This a beautifully illustrated book summarising how farmland biodiversity can be enhanced across Europe by applying me…
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How to make the PARTRIDGE approach mainstream?
16 July 2020Within the PARTRIDGE project, we are convinced that we have a message to tell the world. We think that our approach to the restoration and conservation of farmland wildlife is effective and can be ado…
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Rebhuhngerechte Blühflächen übertreffen andere Blühflächentypen!
30 June 2020In Niedersachsen gibt es drei Typen von Blühflächen/Blühstreifen: einjährige Blühflächen werden alljährlich neu bestellt, das heißt spätestens im Frühjahr wird die gesamte vorjährige Vegetation entf…
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Why Protecting Farmland Biodiversity is so Important
16 June 2020Biodiversity is the huge variety of every plant and animal in the world, including the habitat in which they live. Our ecosystems provide us with vital services needed for survival, from the oxygen w…
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Raptors and owls benefit from PARTRIDGE measures at Oude Doorn demonstration site, the Netherlands
28 May 2020Through the measures within our PARTRIDGE-project, we want to achieve a 30% increase in biodiversity. In doing so, we mainly focus on wildlife species in arable landscapes. Dutch research has already…
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The impact of the PARTRIDGE project in Scotland
21 May 2020The Scottish PARTRIDGE team have been helping to manage and monitor our two demonstration farms for more than three years now. They are Balgonie Estate in Fife and Whitburgh Farms in Midlothian. The f…
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Working together to achieve more
11 May 2020The Flemish agriculture is, compared to other countries, characterised by a lot of farmers in a small area. Combined with poor spatial planning and high pressure on the remaining open space by industr…
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A year's worth of Partridge monitoring
24 April 2020The grey partridge is our flagship indicator species, which means that providing habitat for it also benefits countless other species. To prove this, the PARTRIDGE project does not only include the m…
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