Faia Brava – Associação de Conservação da Natureza
Faia Brava - Associação de Conservação da Natureza is a Portuguese environmental NGO with more than 25 years of history, and a pioneer in th…
Land Stewardship & Trusts
Holding land in trust for the long term: the montado agroforestry of Herdade do Freixo do Meio, Eternal Forest's thousand-year sanctuaries, and conservation charities like MONTIS and Faia Brava. Ownership as a promise to the future.
Projects in this focus
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…
Reflorestar Portugal
A non-profit NGO working on ecological regeneration, biodiverse reforestation and agroforestry across Portugal, helping communities restore …
Terra Agora
Fundação Terra Agora is a Portuguese public-interest foundation working on a land stewardship model in which donated land is permanently pro…
Eternal Forest
Eternal Forest is a long-term art and ecology project founded in 2018 by artist and poet Evgenia Emets, working towards a global network of …
Rewilding Portugal
Rewilding Portugal is a non-profit association working to make Portugal a wilder place by restoring ecosystems and wildlife corridors, with …
Land stewardship and trusts in Portugal
Buying land is the easy part; keeping a promise about it after the buyer dies is the hard one. These organisations use ownership structures (foundations, associations, conservation charities) to hold ground beyond the lifespan of any single owner.
MONTIS manages several hundred hectares of restored woodland near Vouzela. Faia Brava was the first privately protected area in the country. Fundação Terra Agora works on a stewardship model out of Tomar, FAPAS and A Rocha manage protected land in the north and the Algarve, and Herdade do Freixo do Meio holds its montado under a protective statute.
Most accept donations of land as well as money, and several take on parcels nobody else wants. See also habitat restoration, rewilding and cork oak montado. Dated activities from these projects are listed in our events calendar.