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…
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
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.