>Flemish Member of Parliament Mieke Schauvliege (Groen) has been pushing for the abolition of hunting the partridge since 2020. That year hearings with experts were organized, she drafted a proposal for a decree, but it never came to a vote on the proposal.
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>Schauvliege now wants to revive the debate. Since 2020, 750,000 euros of Flemish tax money has been pumped into research on the partridge, and an additional 2.8 million euros came from Europe. That money serves, among other things, to accompany the “species protection program for field birds” rolled out in 2021. This should give new opportunities not only to the partridge, but also to other threatened animals.
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>Because together with the problem birds skylark and yellowhammer, the partridge forms a trio of ‘umbrella species’: protective measures for these species will also benefit other field birds. ‘But surely it cannot be,’ Schauvliege argues, ‘that initiatives to prevent the extinction of the partridge in Flanders still take place in a context of hunting.’
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>Flemish Member of Parliament Mieke Schauvliege (Groen) has been pushing for the abolition of hunting the partridge since 2020. That year hearings with experts were organized, she drafted a proposal for a decree, but it never came to a vote on the proposal.
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>Schauvliege now wants to revive the debate. Since 2020, 750,000 euros of Flemish tax money has been pumped into research on the partridge, and an additional 2.8 million euros came from Europe. That money serves, among other things, to accompany the “species protection program for field birds” rolled out in 2021. This should give new opportunities not only to the partridge, but also to other threatened animals.
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>Because together with the problem birds skylark and yellowhammer, the partridge forms a trio of ‘umbrella species’: protective measures for these species will also benefit other field birds. ‘But surely it cannot be,’ Schauvliege argues, ‘that initiatives to prevent the extinction of the partridge in Flanders still take place in a context of hunting.’