Press Releases
The challenges of growing quality conservation crops: progress with PARTRIDGE at Balgonie
18 June 2018Balgonie estate in Fife is one of the ten demonstration sites supported by the EU North Sea Region programme, as part of the PARTRIDGE project.
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PARTRIDGE project attends local nature festival
15 June 2018Staff from the NSR Interreg PARTRIDGE project were on-hand to inform visitors at a local nature festival in Selborne, East Hampshire, UK on the 28 May.
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NSR Interreg PARTRIDGE partners visit inspiring farmland biodiversity project in Switzerland
15 June 2018Between 6-8 June, 24 members of the PARTRIDGE project together with farmers from the Netherlands, England and Hungary, travelled to Switzerland to learn about the Swiss agri-environmental scheme and t…
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Beetle banks – why and how to build them for farmland wildlife
23 May 2018Beetle banks are c. 0.4m high earth banks built across the middle or alongside arable fields. They were invented in England in the early 1980s (a collaboration between GWCT and Southampton University)…
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New PARTRIDGE flower blocks at the Isabellapolder demo site
18 May 2018Last week, the first new parcels in the Isabellapolder demonstration site were sown with the PARTRIDGE flower mix.
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Successful PARTRIDGE meeting held in Edinburgh
14 May 2018The fifth partner meeting of the North Sea Region PARTRIDGE project was held last week in Scotland, with the base of operations at the Royal Botanic Gardens in Edinburgh, followed by a trip to Whitbur…
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Dutch demonstration sites visited by groups from Belgium and Limburg
19 April 2018FREEZING cold temperatures did not stop 16 people from the Interreg project Grenspark Groot Saeftinghe visiting the PARTRIDGE demo site ‘Burgh-Sluis’ in mid-March.
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New hedgerow planted at Scottish PARTRIDGE demonstration site
18 April 2018Hedgerows are widely recognised as being of vital importance to farmland wildlife, and rightly so. They provide valuable shelter throughout the year, cover for all sorts of wildlife to breed in and an…
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Farmers discuss sowing methods in Belgian pub
13 April 2018Belgian farmers gather to prepare the sowing of PARTRIDGE flower blocks.
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The importance of PARTRIDGE with the current decline in farmland birds across Europe
10 April 2018The results from recent bird-monitoring studies carried out by France’s National Museum of Natural History (MNHN) and the National Centre for Scientific Research reveal that the country’s bird populat…
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