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GWCT award for partridge conservation

GWCT award for partridge conservation

The trophy was presented to headkeeper Tom Goodridge (left) by Richard Thomas
of chartered surveyors BTF (centre)


By Selena Masson, Shooting Times

Monday, 01 December 2008

The Arundel estate, in Sussex, has been awarded a Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust (GWCT) Grey Partridge Trophy.

The trophy was presented to headkeeper Tom Goodridge by Richard Thomas of chartered surveyors BTF last month. The GWCT’s Peter Thompson said: “In a year when many people were struggling to produce broods because of the wet summer, the estate has managed to increase substantially its population of grey partridges.”

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