Bee Serra da Estrela
Bee Serra da Estrela is a regenerative project in Manteigas that combines syntropic agriculture, forest restoration and nature-based tourism…
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
Carvalhal (RH Florestal)
Carvalhal is a 220-hectare forest property near Penha Garcia, Idanha-a-Nova, managed by RH Florestal since 2019, combining cork oak, holm oa…
Reserva do Vale Velho
Reserva do Vale Velho is an ecological restoration and cultural preservation project on a 100-hectare former farm in the Serra da Estrela Na…
Veredas da Estrela
Veredas da Estrela is a community association founded after the 2022 wildfires that devastated 25% of the Serra da Estrela Natural Park, wor…
Idanha-à-Vida
Idanha-à-Vida is a large-scale ecological, social and cultural regeneration project spanning 1,600 hectares around the historic village of I…
EcoAtivo
EcoAtivo is a Portuguese nature protection and conservation association based in Fundão that works to improve the relationship between human…
Associação Cabeço Santo
Associação Cabeço Santo is a Portuguese environmental NGO dedicated to the ecological restoration of degraded landscapes on the western slop…
Faia Brava – Associação de Conservação da Natureza
Faia Brava – Associação de Conservação da Natureza is a Portuguese environmental NGO with over 25 years of history, pioneering the recogniti…
MONTIS – Associação de Conservação da Natureza
MONTIS is a Portuguese environmental NGO founded in 2014 and headquartered in Vouzela, Viseu, that manages 313 hectares across 38 properties…
Reflorestar Portugal
Reflorestar Portugal is a non-profit NGO dedicated to ecological regeneration, biodiverse reforestation, and agroforestry across Portugal, e…
Terra Agora
Fundação Terra Agora is a Portuguese public-interest foundation pioneering a new land stewardship model in which donated land is permanently…
Eternal Forest
Eternal Forest is a long-term art and ecology initiative founded in 2018 by artist and poet Evgenia Emets, dedicated to creating a global ne…
Rewilding Portugal
Rewilding Portugal is a non-profit association dedicated to making Portugal a wilder place by restoring ecosystems and wildlife corridors, w…
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.