Foundation head says land stewardship must secure Portugal's nature restoration beyond funding cycles

Portugal is drawing up its first National Nature Restoration Plan, which treats ecological restoration as a strategic national priority. Ivan Sellers, who chairs the Terra Agora Foundation, argues that the main challenge goes beyond bringing ecosystems back to health. In his view, restored land must keep being looked after once funding cycles, individual projects and political mandates have come to an end. He points to land stewardship models as a way of keeping conservation going over the long term.