Oriolus Ecotours
Oriolus Ecotours is a Porto-based ecotourism company offering guided birdwatching, wildlife and nature photography tours across the Douro an…
Nature-based Learning
Lessons the land teaches best: forest-school days at Bosque do Pisco near Estoril, hands-on stays at Terra Alta near Sintra, and living classrooms like Quinta Vale da Lama. Learning by doing, outdoors.
Projects in this focus
Feel Sustainable
Feel Sustainable is a Portuguese project blending sustainability, Feng Shui and spirituality to design nature-based experiences, tourism str…
Cooperativa Ser Natureza
Cooperativa Ser Natureza is a project in Terroso, Póvoa de Varzim, dedicated to reconnecting people with nature and other species through ed…
TERRA Associação de Educação Integral do Minho
TERRA is a non-profit association in Alvarães, Viana do Castelo, offering nature-based, integral education for children through daily activi…
Ceiba Permacultura
Ceiba Permacultura is a permaculture education and consultancy initiative based in Vila Nova de Famalicão, Portugal, running courses, worksh…
Bem da Terra
Bem da Terra is a sustainability education space in Portugal offering permaculture design, sensory walks, a food forest and workshops that r…
Nature-based learning in Portugal
Forest school arrived here late and grew fast, helped by a climate that makes outdoor days possible most of the year and by families who moved to the countryside and then had to answer the schooling question.
Folha Verde runs bilingual natural education in the Benfeita valley near Arganil. Novas Descobertas works with children year-round near Lagos. Biovilla teaches on an estate in Palmela within reach of Lisbon, and Faia Brava takes school groups onto rewilded land in the Côa.
Some are alternative schools, some are an extension of a farm or a reserve, and the legal shape varies as much as the pedagogy, worth asking early. Related focuses: sustainability in schools, community education and eco-tourism and experiential learning. Dated programmes appear on our events calendar.