IPR — Instituto de Planeamento Regenerativo
IPR — Instituto de Planeamento Regenerativo is a Southern Portugal-based technical organisation that designs and implements regenerative ter…
Ecosystems & Biodiversity
The projects giving land back to nature: Rewilding Portugal in the north-east, MONTIS restoring hillsides near Vouzela, ALMARGEM defending the Algarve's natural heritage, and the Biggest Mini Forest movement planting food forests across the country. Rewilding, agroforestry and the montado at the centre.
Projects in this theme
TAGIS – Centro de Conservação das Borboletas de Portugal
TAGIS is a Portuguese non-profit association dedicated to the scientific study and conservation of butterflies and other insects, running na…
Broto de bambu
Broto de Bambu is a specialized bamboo nursery and education centre located within Bambuparque at Herdade da Fonte in the Alentejo region of…
REA Alentejo
REA Alentejo is a project led by ADPM – Associação para a Defesa do Património de Mértola that develops and tests a replicable model to rest…
Ocean Alive
Ocean Alive is Portugal's first cooperative dedicated to ocean protection, working with coastal and fishing communities to conserve seagrass…
Associação Dunas Livres
Associação Dunas Livres is a Portuguese citizen movement fighting to preserve the wild dunes, lagoons and wetlands of the Costa Azul (Tróia …
Brigada do Mar
Brigada do Mar is a Portuguese environmental NGO founded in 2009 dedicated to decontaminating the coastline and educating communities about …
Pangea Trust
Pangea Trust is transforming a thousand-acre estate in Alentejo into Europe's first large-scale elephant sanctuary. The project provides a n…
Viveiro Campesino
Viveiro Campesino is a small family-run nursery near Marvão, Portugal, producing reforestation, fruit and medicinal plants using regenerativ…
Parque de Natureza de Noudar
Parque de Natureza de Noudar is a 151-hectare conservation and nature tourism project near Barrancos, created by EDIA as an environmental of…
Wild Forest Garden
Wild Forest Garden is a registered NGO in southern Alentejo, Portugal, dedicated to creating biodiverse forest gardens using syntropic agric…
Ecosystem restoration and biodiversity in Portugal
Portugal has lost a great deal of its native cover to eucalyptus plantations, abandonment and fire. The projects here work on the other side of that: putting land back into a state that can hold water, carbon and species.
Rewilding Portugal works in the north-east, in the Greater Côa Valley. MONTIS restores hillsides near Vouzela. ALMARGEM defends the Algarve's natural heritage. The Biggest Mini Forest movement plants dense mini-forests around the country. And running through much of it is the montado, the cork oak landscape that is farmed and wild at once, and that most of Europe does not have.
Use the focus filter for rewilding, habitat restoration, agroforestry, cork oak and montado, tree planting, pollinator support, seed saving and exchange, wetland protection, marine conservation, and land stewardship and trusts. Several of these organisations run planting days and depend on volunteers to do it. Dated activities from these projects are listed in our events calendar.