Sciaena
Sciaena is a Portuguese NGO founded in 2006 dedicated to marine conservation, sustainable fisheries and public awareness of ocean issues. It…
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
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…
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…
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.
Where these projects are
- Algarve03
- Alentejo02
- Azores02
- Lisbon02
- Madeira02