Editing Grey partridge (section)

==Status and conservation==
Though common and not threatened, it is declining in numbers in some areas of intensive cultivation such as the [[United Kingdom]], due to a loss of breeding habitat and [[insecticides]] harming insect numbers, an important food source for the species. Their numbers have fallen in these areas by as much as 85% in the last 25 years.{{CN|date=February 2025}} Efforts are being made in the [[United Kingdom]] by organizations such as the [[Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust]] to halt this decline by creating [[conservation headland]]s.

In 1995, it was nominated a [[Biodiversity action plan|Biodiversity action plan (BAP)]] species. In [[Ireland]], it is now virtually confined to the [[Boora bog|Lough Boora]] reserve in [[County Offaly]] where a recent conservation project has succeeded in boosting its numbers to around 900, raising hopes that it may be reintroduced to the rest of Ireland.<ref>{{cite web |title=Grey Partridge population on the increase |url=https://www.rte.ie/news/environment/2019/0905/1074158-grey-partridges/ |website=RTE |date=5 September 2019 |access-date=5 September 2020 |last1=Lee |first1=George }}</ref>