Purdey Awards
The Purdey Awards for Game and Conservation is an annual competition to find, and to give recognition to, the UK's best game conservation projects.
It has been run by James Purdey & Sons since 1999.
The Awards are open to any landowner or farmer, shoot owner, tenant or syndicate, or club or association, who run their shoots in accordance with Code of Good Shooting Practice, and who are engaged in a current project to improve habitats for reared or wild game birds or waterfowl. They must also be able to demonstrate improved biodiversity as a result of their conservation work.
The key objectives of the Awards are to give recognition to those whose work in game conservation too often goes unseen and unsung, and to show a wider public that without shooting there would be little or no motivation for landowners to commit the time or money required for game conservation.
The benefits in terms of improved biodiversity and better land management go far beyond the narrow confines of game shooting.
Click here to download the press release with details of the winners of the 2011 Purdey Awards
