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…
Pollinator Support
Herdade Monte Silveira and Quinta Vale da Lama make space for pollinators on working land. Conservation groups such as Quercus also protect the insects and wildflowers that support harvests.
Projects in this focus
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…
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…
Pollinator support in Portugal
Portugal has hundreds of native bee species and a beekeeping tradition that mostly counts one of them. Pollinator work here means both: hives that produce, and the wild insects that do the unpaid share of the pollination and get none of the attention.
Quinta Vale da Lama and Herdade Monte Silveira farm with flowering margins and hedgerows. Beesweet produces organic honey in the north. Quercus and LPN, the oldest environmental NGO on the peninsula, work on the policy and monitoring side, and VERDE and Vita Nativa restore the habitat the insects actually need.
The useful private act is not a hive; it is leaving something in flower from February to October. See also habitat restoration, seed saving and exchange and organic farming. Dated activities from these projects are listed in our events calendar.