Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian – Nature and Biodiversity Protection Programme
The Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation's Nature and Biodiversity Protection Programme provides core funding to eight environmental NGOs across P…
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
Reservas da Biosfera de Portugal
Reservas da Biosfera de Portugal is a digital territorial platform that showcases Portugal's 13 UNESCO Biosphere Reserves, promoting their n…
Movimento ALP — Ajude a Limpar a Praia
Movimento ALP is a registered national initiative dedicated to environmental volunteering since 2011, organising community beach clean-ups a…
SPEA – Sociedade Portuguesa para o Estudo das Aves
SPEA is a Portuguese non-profit environmental NGO, founded in 1993 and affiliated with BirdLife International, dedicated to the study and co…
ANP | WWF – Associação Natureza Portugal
ANP | WWF is a Portuguese environmental NGO working in association with WWF to conserve nature, restore ecosystems and influence environment…
AIM Forest
AIM Forest is a natural capital investment platform developing sustainable, irrigated cork oak forestry projects in southern Portugal, combi…
Quinta do Pisão (Parque da Natureza de Cascais)
Quinta do Pisão, officially the Parque da Natureza de Cascais, is a municipal nature park in Alcabideche dedicated to biodiversity conservat…
Oásis Biosistema
Oásis Biosistema is a Portuguese company founded in 2022 by Alberto Tassi, specialising in the design and construction of natural pools, orn…
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…
Oceano Azul Foundation
Oceano Azul Foundation is an international foundation based in Lisbon dedicated to ocean conservation through science, policy advocacy, and …
Grupo Lobo
Grupo Lobo is a Portuguese association dedicated to the conservation of the Iberian wolf since 1985, combining scientific research, environm…
Tapada Nacional de Mafra
Tapada Nacional de Mafra is a historic walled forest in Portugal dedicated to biodiversity conservation, research and public nature experien…
Ilhas de Biodiversidade
Ilhas de Biodiversidade creates dense native mini-forests using the Miyawaki method in industrial, educational and community settings across…
Regen Waves
Regen Waves is a non-profit movement regenerating the Arrábida bioregion in Portugal through native 'superforests', community-led Regen Walk…
Plantar uma Árvore
Plantar uma Árvore is a Portuguese environmental NGO dedicated to native forest conservation and ecological restoration through volunteer-dr…
Quercus – Associação Nacional de Conservação da Natureza
Quercus is Portugal's largest independent environmental NGO, founded in 1985, dedicated to nature conservation and environmental defence nat…
OArborista
OArborista is a certified arboriculture company based in Sesimbra and Lisbon, led by professional arborist Ruben Oliveira with over 15 years…
GEOTA
GEOTA – Grupo de Estudos de Ordenamento do Território e Ambiente – is a national non-profit environmental NGO active since 1981, working on …
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.