The GWCT Partridge Count Scheme: A Volunteer-Based Monitoring and Conservation Promotion Scheme

The Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust’s (GWCT) Partridge Count Scheme (PCS) is a volunteer-based monitoring system serving as a means for delivering conservation and ‘best practice’ advice to participants (farmers, land managers and gamekeepers). Originally designed to monitor numbers of grey partridge (Perdix perdix) on UK shooting estates, it has been expanded to include participants primarily interested in conservation in response to the UK...