IPR — Instituto de Planeamento Regenerativo
IPR — Instituto de Planeamento Regenerativo is a Southern Portugal-based technical organisation that designs and implements regenerative ter…
Habitat Restoration
The heart of the ecosystems collection: MONTIS restoring native woodland near Vouzela, Rewilding Portugal in the Greater Côa Valley, and the Miyawaki mini-forests of Ilhas de Biodiversidade. Giving degraded and abandoned land a second life.
Projects in this focus
TAGIS – Centro de Conservação das Borboletas de Portugal
TAGIS is a Portuguese non-profit association working on the scientific study and conservation of butterflies and other insects. It runs nati…
REA Alentejo
Led by ADPM (Associação para a Defesa do Património de Mértola), REA Alentejo develops and tests a replicable model for restoring degraded s…
Ocean Alive
Ocean Alive is Portugal's first cooperative dedicated to protecting the ocean. It works with coastal and fishing communities to conserve sea…
Associação Dunas Livres
A Portuguese citizen movement campaigning to preserve the wild dunes, lagoons and wetlands of the Costa Azul, from Tróia to Melides, against…
Brigada do Mar
Brigada do Mar is a Portuguese environmental NGO, founded in 2009, that works to decontaminate the coastline and teaches communities about p…
Viveiro Campesino
A small family-run nursery near Marvão, Portugal, growing reforestation, fruit and medicinal plants with regenerative agriculture techniques…
Parque de Natureza de Noudar
Parque de Natureza de Noudar is a 151-hectare conservation and nature tourism project near Barrancos, Alentejo, created by EDIA as an enviro…
Wild Forest Garden
A registered NGO in southern Alentejo, Wild Forest Garden creates biodiverse forest gardens using syntropic agriculture and no-dig methods, …
Habitat restoration in Portugal
Restoration here usually starts from one of three inheritances: eucalyptus planted where oak woodland stood, land burned in one of the big fire years, or a hillside abandoned when the village emptied. Each needs a different intervention, and all of them need patience measured in decades.
MONTIS buys and restores native woodland around Vouzela. Faia Brava does long-term work in the Côa. ALMARGEM and Vita Nativa restore habitat in the Algarve, VERDE protects old-growth trees near Lousada, and Parque de Natureza de Noudar runs a restored estate on the Spanish border.
Planting days and monitoring work are practical ways to volunteer; project pages show where they happen. Related focuses: rewilding, tree planting and land stewardship and trusts; dated field days are on our events calendar.