AMACO – Associação Madeirense para a Conservação Marinha
AMACO is a Madeiran NGO dedicated to marine conservation, generating scientific knowledge about the archipelago's marine ecosystems and rais…
Marine Conservation
Portugal is mostly ocean: AIMM studying cetaceans in the Algarve, Brigada do Mar clearing the coastline, and the Ocean Azores Foundation across nine islands. Care for the sea that shapes the country.
Projects in this focus
MARE-Madeira (Marine and Environmental Sciences Centre)
MARE-Madeira is the Madeira pole of the Marine and Environmental Sciences Centre, dedicated to research on marine biodiversity and environme…
Sciaena
Sciaena is a Portuguese NGO founded in 2006 dedicated to marine conservation, sustainable fisheries and public awareness of ocean issues. It…
Blue Azores
Blue Azores is a marine conservation programme born in 2019 from a partnership between the Regional Government of the Azores, the Oceano Azu…
CCMAR – Centre of Marine Sciences (Universidade do Algarve)
CCMAR is a non-profit marine research centre at the University of Algarve dedicated to understanding, protecting and exploring the ocean thr…
Oceano Azul Foundation
Oceano Azul Foundation is an international foundation based in Lisbon dedicated to ocean conservation through science, policy advocacy, and …
Ocean Alive
Ocean Alive is Portugal's first cooperative dedicated to ocean protection, working with coastal and fishing communities to conserve seagrass…
Brigada do Mar
Brigada do Mar is a Portuguese environmental NGO founded in 2009 dedicated to decontaminating the coastline and educating communities about …
AIMM – Marine Environment Research Association
AIMM – Marine Environment Research Association is a Portuguese non-profit NGO founded in 2010 and based in the Algarve, dedicated to the sci…
Ocean Azores Foundation
Ocean Azores Foundation is a São Miguel-based nonprofit dedicated to protecting the Azores' ocean environment and cetacean populations. Foun…
GEOTA
GEOTA – Grupo de Estudos de Ordenamento do Território e Ambiente – is a national non-profit environmental NGO active since 1981, working on …
Marine conservation in Portugal
Portugal governs one of the largest maritime areas in Europe, most of it around the Azores and Madeira rather than the mainland coast. Almost everything difficult about this focus follows from that ratio: a small country, an ocean-sized responsibility.
AIMM studies cetaceans off the Algarve and CCMAR researches from the University of the Algarve. Sciaena works on fisheries policy, Ocean Alive organises with fishing communities as a cooperative, and Brigada do Mar clears coastline. Blue Azores and the Ocean Azores Foundation work across the archipelago, MARE-Madeira from Câmara de Lobos.
Beach cleans and citizen-science surveys are the open door here; the research groups also take students. Related focuses: wetland protection and habitat restoration. Dated activities from these projects are listed in our events calendar.