RIAS/ALDEIA
RIAS/ALDEIA is a wildlife recovery and research centre at Quinta de Marim in Olhão, within the Ria Formosa Natural Park, which rescues and rehabilitates injured wild animals. It also carries out scientific research and runs educational programmes for schools and conservation professionals.
Injured and debilitated wild animals arrive at Quinta de Marim in Olhão, inside the Ria Formosa Natural Park. There RIAS/ALDEIA treats and rehabilitates them, and returns them to their natural environments. The full name is Centro de Recuperação e Investigação de Animais Selvagens, a wildlife rehabilitation and research centre.
The centre also works on biodiversity research, and its data feeds national and European conservation projects. It has taken part in the LIFE Ilhas Barreira and LIFE Imperial projects.
Teaching is a large part of the work. RIAS/ALDEIA runs training courses for veterinarians, researchers and conservation practitioners, including theoretical and practical courses on wildlife necropsy in birds and on the recovery of young wildlife, from rescue to release. Schools and educational groups can visit the centre, or have a wildlife education session on site.
Members of the public can sponsor an individual animal and support it during its recovery. Donations and newsletters keep the wider community in touch with what the centre is doing.
Volunteers, professional staff and institutional funding partners keep the work going.
Our Goal
To rescue and rehabilitate injured or debilitated wild animals and return them to their natural habitats, and to contribute to biodiversity research and environmental education.
Our Wishes
The centre welcomes donations and volunteers, and invites the public to support its wildlife rehabilitation and research work by sponsoring an animal through its sponsorship programme.
