Causas de Raiz
Causas de Raiz is an independent, non-profit citizen map tracking environmental conflicts in Portugal, with over 100 documented and sourced …
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
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…
EVOA – Espaço de Visitação e Observação de Aves
EVOA is a bird-watching and nature interpretation centre in the Tagus estuary, near Vila Franca de Xira, 30 minutes from Lisbon. It combines…
Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian – Nature and Biodiversity Protection Programme
The Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation's Nature and Biodiversity Protection Programme provides core funding to eight environmental NGOs across P…
Reservas da Biosfera de Portugal
Reservas da Biosfera de Portugal is a digital territorial platform that showcases Portugal's 13 UNESCO Biosphere Reserves, promoting their n…
Movimento ALP — Ajude a Limpar a Praia
Movimento ALP is a registered national initiative that has been organising community beach clean-ups and eco team-building activities across…
SPEA – Sociedade Portuguesa para o Estudo das Aves
SPEA is a Portuguese non-profit environmental NGO, founded in 1993 and affiliated with BirdLife International, dedicated to the study and co…
ANP | WWF – Associação Natureza Portugal
ANP | WWF is a Portuguese environmental NGO working in association with WWF to conserve nature, restore ecosystems and influence environment…
Quinta do Pisão (Parque da Natureza de Cascais)
Quinta do Pisão, officially the Parque da Natureza de Cascais, is a municipal nature park in Alcabideche for biodiversity conservation, outd…
Oásis Biosistema
Oásis Biosistema is a Portuguese company founded in 2022 by Alberto Tassi, specialising in the design and construction of natural pools, orn…
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…
Oceano Azul Foundation
An international foundation based in Lisbon that works on ocean conservation through science, policy advocacy and collaboration with decisio…
Grupo Lobo
Grupo Lobo is a Portuguese association that has worked to conserve the Iberian wolf since 1985. It combines scientific research, environment…
Tapada Nacional de Mafra
A historic walled forest in Mafra used for biodiversity conservation, research and public nature activities. It is part of the Real Edifício…
Ilhas de Biodiversidade
Ilhas de Biodiversidade plants dense native mini-forests with the Miyawaki method in industrial, educational and community settings across P…
Regen Waves
Regen Waves is a non-profit movement working to regenerate the Arrábida bioregion through native “superforests”, community-led Regen Walks a…
Plantar uma Árvore
Plantar uma Árvore is a Portuguese environmental NGO that conserves native forest and restores habitats through volunteer tree planting and …
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…
OArborista
OArborista is a certified arboriculture company based in Sesimbra and Lisbon, led by the professional arborist Ruben Oliveira, who has over …
GEOTA
GEOTA (Grupo de Estudos de Ordenamento do Território e Ambiente) is a national non-profit environmental NGO, active since 1981, working on e…
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.