FUTURO – Projeto das 100.000 Árvores na Área Metropolitana do Porto
FUTURO has planted native trees across the Porto Metropolitan Area since 2011 and passed its target of 100,000 trees. It is run by the CRE.P…
Ecosystems & Biodiversity
The projects giving land back to nature: Rewilding Portugal in the north-east, MONTIS restoring hillsides near Vouzela, ALMARGEM defending the Algarve's natural heritage, and the Biggest Mini Forest movement planting food forests across the country. Rewilding, agroforestry and the montado at the centre.
Algarve dam plan is open for public comment until 12 OctoberA proposed reservoir on the Foupana stream would add water to the eastern Algarve's supply. The environmental study is public, and anyone who wants to comment has until 12 October.
Portugal after dark: the hidden world of moths
LPN bought 1,800 hectares of Castro Verde to save its birdsLPN seeks new income amid EU conservation funding uncertainty
Pro Nativa
Pro Nativa is a rewilding and habitat management business based in Aljezur that restores native forest in south-west Portugal. It removes in…
Awakened Forest Project
Awakened Forest Project is a reforestation and landscape restoration initiative in the Serra do Açor, working to transform former pine monoc…
BLC3 – Campus de Tecnologia e Inovação
BLC3 is a non-profit research and innovation association based in Oliveira do Hospital, with hubs in Alfândega da Fé and Ourique, focused on…
Causas de Raiz
Causas de Raiz is an independent, non-profit citizen map tracking environmental conflicts in Portugal, with over 100 documented and sourced …
Os Montanheiros – Sociedade de Exploração Espeleológica
Os Montanheiros is an environmental NGO founded in 1963 on Terceira Island, Azores, dedicated to speleological exploration and the protectio…
Faixas Vivas
Faixas Vivas is a Portuguese movement of NGOs, companies and citizens pushing to reform fire-prevention rules so they preserve native vegeta…
ICNF - Instituto da Conservação da Natureza e das Florestas
ICNF is the Portuguese public institute responsible for nature conservation and forest management, including the national network of protect…
Environment minister orders priority measures to stop wolf attacks on livestock
The order starts a 30-day clock for the conservation institute, then a progress report to the minister every two months, with a map of attacks deciding where work begins.
EU agency reviews two years of Montagu's harrier conservation work in Beja and Castro Verde
Evaluators left the meeting room for the cereal fields of Castro Verde, where one of the biggest colonies of a threatened raptor breeds.
Beekeepers can extend biodiversity support for a further year, applications close 9 November
The payment ranges from 132 euros to more than 3,000 euros a year, but only for those already in the scheme.
Marine science centre MARE holds annual meeting in Setúbal for the first time
The centre's director says it is robust enough to survive what lies ahead, yet admits to being extremely worried about one particular year.
Opinion: hunting, not wolves or oak forests, is the realistic answer to Portugal's wild boar boom
Italy has more than 3,000 wolves and two million wild boar, a comparison the author says dismantles the case for rewilding as a fix.
Viseu to host first Mondego River congress on 24 October
A civic movement has pulled mayors and scientists into one room in Viseu, far from the river's mouth, to talk about the Mondego's future.
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Twelve Months, Twelve Walks
Prazilândia – Turismo e Ambiente E.M. once again joins forces with the Município de Castanheira de Pera to run, throughout 2026, another edition of the "Doze Meses, Doze Caminhadas" program. This year's edition offers a varied itinerary covering the history, culture and biodiversity of the Castanheira de Pera municipality, which includes the Aldeia do Xisto do Coentral. Each activity is designed to provide an educational and leisure experience, in full harmony with the environment…
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Exhibition on Migratory Birds in the Algarve
Photography exhibition showcasing migratory birds that pass through the Algarve, running from 18 September to 8 November at Sociedade de Instrução e Recreio Messinense. The exhibition opening takes place on 18 September at 19:00.
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Exhibition "Alqueva vivo: animais e plantas da nossa terra"
Exhibition on the fauna and flora of Alqueva, the result of an educational project with children and elderly people from Mourão, on display at the EDIA headquarters in Beja on weekdays from 9am to 6pm until 27 November.
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GEOTA Training Course – Coastal Ecosystems: Biodiversity, Coastal Management and Eco-citizenship
GEOTA is running a 20-hour training course on coastal ecosystems, biodiversity, coastal management and eco-citizenship, in both online and in-person format, aimed at teachers, students, technicians and the general public, between 28 September and 31 October.
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Coastwatch Training Course
GEOTA TRAINING COURSE | COASTAL ECOSYSTEMS: BIODIVERSITY, COASTAL MANAGEMENT AND ECO-CITIZENSHIP. A 20-hour training course with scientific-pedagogical accreditation for groups 420 and 520. 📍 Format: online and in-person. Secure your place and actively contribute to the futu...
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Under Fragile Seas Exhibition
A photography exhibition of 25 photographs of marine biodiversity taken by Professor Pedro Ponces Camanho, presented at the UC Exploratório in Coimbra. The images span the Pacific, Atlantic, Indian and Indo-Pacific oceans, inviting visitors to reflect on the preservation of marine ecosystems.
Ecosystem restoration and biodiversity in Portugal
Portugal has lost a great deal of its native cover to eucalyptus plantations, abandonment and fire. The projects here work on the other side of that: putting land back into a state that can hold water, carbon and species.
Rewilding Portugal works in the north-east, in the Greater Côa Valley. MONTIS restores hillsides near Vouzela. ALMARGEM defends the Algarve's natural heritage. The Biggest Mini Forest movement plants dense mini-forests around the country. And running through much of it is the montado, the cork oak landscape that is farmed and wild at once, and that most of Europe does not have.
Use the focus filter for rewilding, habitat restoration, agroforestry, cork oak and montado, tree planting, pollinator support, seed saving and exchange, wetland protection, marine conservation, and land stewardship and trusts. Several of these organisations run planting days and depend on volunteers to do it. Dated activities from these projects are listed in our events calendar.