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• Ecosystems

  ICNF proposes extending nature park into three more municipalities

  Nearly 3,700 hectares could be added to a protected limestone landscape that one council has been pushing for since 2019.

  16 September 2026CentroICNF

• Ecosystems

  Experts urge urgent action on pampas grass spreading in Portugal

  The plant now grows in 208 of Portugal's 278 municipalities, and September is a decisive month for stopping it.

  15 September 2026ICNF

• Ecosystems

  Portimão clean-up planned for João d'Arens forest on 19 September

  A morning clean-up in Portimão ties a coastal cause to a fire brigade's 100th anniversary.

  15 September 2026Algarve

• Ecosystems

  Repsol Foundation and Sylvestris register second carbon forest in Monchique

  The project's carbon must stay locked away for at least four decades, officials say.

  15 September 2026Algarve

• Ecosystems

  Portugal to pay hunters per wild boar killed in pilot scheme

  A fatal crash in Alentejo has pushed the government towards an unusual financial incentive to cull wild boar.

  15 September 2026AlentejoICNF

• Ecosystems

  São Pedro do Sul asks to join national wild boar control pilot

  A council that already pays 14 hunting groups up to 3,000 euros each wants a place in the national scheme.

  14 September 2026CentroICNF

• Ecosystems

  Portugal's forest ranger teams await long-promised career status

  Only 12 municipalities in Portugal have two forest ranger teams, and the rangers say a promised career upgrade still hasn't come.

  13 September 2026CentroICNF

• Ecosystems

  Quercus Aveiro to hold second anti-wildfire walk on 19th

  Environmental groups return to Valongo do Vouga with a demand aimed squarely at flammable monoculture forests.

  13 September 2026Centro

• Ecosystems

  Cabanas de Tavira beach named among world's cleanest

  The only way in is a boat ride of under five minutes across the Ria Formosa.

  13 September 2026AlgarveABAE

• Ecosystems

  Madeira closes Areeiro-Pico Ruivo trail for six days for footbridge works

  Only part of the trail stays open on those six dates, and hikers cannot go all the way through.

  13 September 2026MadeiraIFCN

• Ecosystems

  Beja and Évora among seven towns to get green-space funding

  Almost eight million euros are earmarked to green seven Portuguese towns, but one environmental group has a warning.

  12 September 2026ZERO

• Ecosystems

  Portuguese study finds orca-boat contact dates back to 2018

  A Portuguese research vessel recorded an orca making physical contact two years before the phenomenon made headlines worldwide.

  12 September 2026AlgarveJoana Castro

• Ecosystems

  Madeira forestry teams clean up litter on Rabaçal trails

  One of Madeira's busiest natural sites keeps generating rubbish that crews now clear all year round.

  12 September 2026MadeiraIFCN

• Ecosystems

  Azores approve €6.5m to compensate fishermen for marine reserves

  The money will be split across three years to ease the blow on fishermen from a 287,000 square kilometre protected network.

  11 September 2026Azores

• Ecosystems

  Portugal sets 20-day cap on Iberian wolf damage payouts

  Farmers hit by wolf attacks currently wait months for compensation, but a new deadline takes years to arrive.

  11 September 2026ICNF

• Ecosystems

  Off-road rally links reforestation drive across Portugal

  Riders will cross roughly 300 kilometres of dirt tracks a day, planting trees along the way from Braga to the Algarve.

  11 September 2026

• Ecosystems

  Old Lidl shopping trolleys turned into seahorse shelters in Tagus

  Nine old shopping trolleys now sit on the Tagus riverbed, stripped and treated, for a very particular purpose.

  11 September 2026Lisbon

• Ecosystems

  Braga to monitor Borralha mine over river water concerns

  The mine last operated in 1986, but a water utility's concerns have put Braga's city hall on alert.

  10 September 2026Norte

• Ecosystems

  Quercus slams lack of transparency in APA and ICNF overhaul

  An environmental group says it has waited four months for a reply from the Environment Ministry.

  10 September 2026ICNF

• Ecosystems

  Litter piles up on Madeira's paid Pico Ruivo trail

  Guides say the fee that hikers pay to walk the trail isn't buying the cleanliness they were promised.

  8 September 2026MadeiraIFCN

• Ecosystems

  Groups renew call for Salgados wetland reserve after new animal deaths

  Dead fish, crabs and protected birds turned up in a Silves stream, and campaigners say it was entirely predictable.

  8 September 2026AlgarveAssociação ALMARGEM

• Ecosystems

  Invasive pampas grass now found in over 200 Portuguese municipalities

  Scientists say a legal ban since 2019 has done little to stop this plant's rapid spread across the country.

  8 September 2026ICNF

• Ecosystems

  Coimbra community garden marks five years with public event

  A Coimbra garden invites residents to talk about who really looks after the city.

  7 September 2026Centro

• Ecosystems

  Two golden eagle chicks moved to Peneda-Gerês for release

  Born in captivity in June, the two chicks are now adapting to the wild in a region that lost its breeding eagles nearly two decades ago.

  7 September 2026NorteParque Biológico de Gaia

• Ecosystems

  Shepherds protest wolf-attack payment delays in northern Portugal

  Some shepherds say they have waited nearly two years without seeing a single euro in compensation.

  6 September 2026NorteICNF

• Ecosystems

  Mação to meet hunters and wildlife agency over wild boar surge

  In Mação, wild boars are showing up by the rubbish bins and vegetable patches of every village in the municipality.

  5 September 2026CentroICNF

• Ecosystems

  Portugal's three vulture species mark International Vulture Day

  One of these birds can cross the Strait of Gibraltar in just 20 minutes.

  4 September 2026CentroSPEA

• Ecosystems

  Miranda do Corvo plans lab to grow native tree species

  A region that grows most of Portugal's citrus now wants to pioneer something else entirely.

  4 September 2026CentroICNF

• Ecosystems

  Invasive Japanese algae spreads rapidly along Sines coastline

  Dense underwater forests of a Japanese alga are now smothering rock beds off Sines down to 12 metres.

  4 September 2026Alentejo

• Ecosystems

  Bombarral opposes kaolin mine planned near Peniche

  A UNESCO Geopark near Peniche could host a mine dug 46 metres deep, and Bombarral wants it stopped.

  3 September 2026Centro