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…
Pollinator Support
Herdade Monte Silveira and Quinta Vale da Lama make space for pollinators on working land. Conservation groups such as Quercus also protect the insects and wildflowers that support harvests.
Projects in this focus
Associação NATIVA – Natureza, Invasoras e Valorização Ambiental
NATIVA is a Portuguese association based in Coimbra dedicated to fighting invasive species, especially the Asian hornet, through information…
Associação ALDEIA
Associação ALDEIA is a Portuguese environmental NGO dedicated to nature conservation and rural cultural heritage, running a wildlife recover…
BioLiving – Associação para a Conservação da Natureza
BioLiving is a Portuguese environmental NGO based in Albergaria-a-Velha, founded in 2016, working on ecological restoration, environmental e…
LPN – Liga para a Protecção da Natureza
LPN – Liga para a Protecção da Natureza is the oldest environmental NGO in the Iberian Peninsula, founded in 1948, dedicated to nature conse…
Beesweet - More Than Honey, Lda
A Portuguese family project run by two cousins, producing premium organic honey and hive products and speaking up for bee conservation and e…
Quercus – Associação Nacional de Conservação da Natureza
Founded in 1985, Quercus is Portugal's largest independent environmental NGO, working on nature conservation and environmental defence natio…
Associação Vita Nativa
Associação Vita Nativa is a Portuguese non-profit founded in 2018 in the Ria Formosa area. It works on environmental conservation through re…
VERDE - Associação para a Conservação Integrada da Natureza
VERDE is a nature conservation association in Lousada, Portugal. It protects old-growth trees, supports biodiversity and offers carbon offse…
MONTIS – Associação de Conservação da Natureza
MONTIS is a Portuguese environmental NGO founded in 2014 and based in Vouzela, Viseu. It manages 313 hectares across 38 properties in centra…
Pollinator support in Portugal
Portugal has hundreds of native bee species and a beekeeping tradition that mostly counts one of them. Pollinator work here means both: hives that produce, and the wild insects that do the unpaid share of the pollination and get none of the attention.
Quinta Vale da Lama and Herdade Monte Silveira farm with flowering margins and hedgerows. Beesweet produces organic honey in the north. Quercus and LPN, the oldest environmental NGO on the peninsula, work on the policy and monitoring side, and VERDE and Vita Nativa restore the habitat the insects actually need.
The useful private act is not a hive; it is leaving something in flower from February to October. See also habitat restoration, seed saving and exchange and organic farming. Dated activities from these projects are listed in our events calendar.