The Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust (GWCT) are launching a project to re-introduce the grey partridge to Cornwall. The native grey partridge (Perdix perdix) flourished as humans cleared land for agriculture. But over the last 50 years, numbers of these surprisingly colourful gamebirds have crashed from millions to just over 65,000 breeding pairs. The Cornish Grey Partridge Project (CGPP) has been devised in response to this decline. An area around Tregirls, Padstow, has been chosen for the CGPP. Grey partridge broods will be introduced to the area in Autumn 2016 and the population will be carefully monitored for five years.