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…
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
Beesweet
Beesweet is a Portuguese family project run by two cousins that produces premium organic honey and hive products while championing bee conse…
Quercus – Associação Nacional de Conservação da Natureza
Quercus is Portugal's largest independent environmental NGO, founded in 1985, dedicated to nature conservation and environmental defence nat…
Associação Vita Nativa
Associação Vita Nativa is a Portuguese non-profit founded in 2018 in the Ria Formosa region, dedicated to environmental conservation through…
VERDE - Associação para a Conservação Integrada da Natureza
VERDE is a Portuguese nature conservation association based in Lousada that protects old-growth trees, supports biodiversity, and offers car…
MONTIS – Associação de Conservação da Natureza
MONTIS is a Portuguese environmental NGO founded in 2014 and headquartered in Vouzela, Viseu, that manages 313 hectares across 38 properties…
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.