Improving connectivity south of the Douro River

Staffan Widstrand / Rewilding Europe

Improving connectivity south of the Douro River

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Quinta Vale do Tourão: rewilding with roots, people and time

June 24, 2025

On the slopes of Figueira de Castelo Rodrigo, in the heart of the Greater Côa Valley, Quinta Vale do Tourão is much more than a farm - that's what makes it so special and committed to the Wild Côa Network, of which it is a member. It is the reflection of a conscious return to the land, where nature and people find their place again. After a decade in France, Telma Lourenço and Xavier Mendo decided to return to their origins and transform the family farm into a living space of reconnection - with the landscape, with rural heritage and with natural cycles.

New paper highlights the benefits of grazing with wild horses

June 23, 2025

A three-year study in Portugal’s Greater Côa Valley has shown that grazing by free-roaming, semi-wild horses can help to reduce the risk of wildfire outbreaks and enhance biodiversity in Mediterranean landscapes. It has also highlighted the fact that when groups of different herbivores graze the same landscapes, this may be even more effective at reducing fire risk.

More than 500 years later, the Beaver is back in Portugal

June 12, 2025

After centuries of absence, evidence of the presence of the European beaver (Castor fibre) in Portuguese territory has finally emerged, following monitoring by Rewilding Portugal in a border area with Spain. The natural dispersal of this true river engineer to Portuguese territory represents not only the return of a species that was once locally extinct, but also one of the most significant steps in the aquatic rewilding of our rivers in Portugal.

Quinta Vale do Tourão: rewilding with roots, people and time

June 24, 2025

On the slopes of Figueira de Castelo Rodrigo, in the heart of the Greater Côa Valley, Quinta Vale do Tourão is much more than a farm - that's what makes it so special and committed to the Wild Côa Network, of which it is a member. It is the reflection of a conscious return to the land, where nature and people find their place again. After a decade in France, Telma Lourenço and Xavier Mendo decided to return to their origins and transform the family farm into a living space of reconnection - with the landscape, with rural heritage and with natural cycles.

New paper highlights the benefits of grazing with wild horses

June 23, 2025

A three-year study in Portugal’s Greater Côa Valley has shown that grazing by free-roaming, semi-wild horses can help to reduce the risk of wildfire outbreaks and enhance biodiversity in Mediterranean landscapes. It has also highlighted the fact that when groups of different herbivores graze the same landscapes, this may be even more effective at reducing fire risk.

More than 500 years later, the Beaver is back in Portugal

June 12, 2025

After centuries of absence, evidence of the presence of the European beaver (Castor fibre) in Portuguese territory has finally emerged, following monitoring by Rewilding Portugal in a border area with Spain. The natural dispersal of this true river engineer to Portuguese territory represents not only the return of a species that was once locally extinct, but also one of the most significant steps in the aquatic rewilding of our rivers in Portugal.

The LIFE WolFlux project received funding from the European Union’s LIFE Programme.

The LIFE programme is the European Union’s funding instrument for the environment and climate action, created in 1992. Every year, the European Commission, which manages the LIFE programme, launches a call for proposals and, on the basis of criteria that take into account the multiannual strategic programme and national priorities, determines which of the proposed projects can benefit from financial support from the LIFE programme and regularly publishes a list of these projects.

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