Saturday 27th July 2024. A pocketknife can be a friendly companion in the forest of Monchique. Monchique is a village in the mountain range of the same name in south-west …
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Acacias and mimosas are conquering Portugal.
The Australian acacia conquers Portugal. The hopelessness of the ICNF’s efforts to rid forests of invasive tree species.
Saturday 20th July 2024. Do you have to love nature to be able to protect it? Or is it enough simply to calculate the value of a forest in economic …
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“This is everyone’s job” Continuation of last week’s interview
Saturday 22 June 2024. Continuation of last week’s interview: Eco123: There are still people who don’t care about their ecological footprint. LR: People who really don’t care at all… Eco123: …
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“This is everyone’s job”The first municipality in Portugal to develop a serious climate action plan.
Saturday, 15th june 2024. Portugal has 308 municipalities. One of them is the medium-sized city of Torres Vedras, located 54 kilometres to the north-west of Lisbon and covering an area …
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OUR FRAGILE MOMENT How Lessons from Earth’s Past Can Help us Survive the Climate Crisis
Saturday 4th May 2024. The way he writes is not as dry as I initially thought. Rather, it is characterised by a highly active scientific competence, coupled with a writer’s …
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BRIDGE: Laboratory for innovation? Dealing with the past of forest fires
Saturday 13th April 2024. Prologue: We had been vaccinated, twice in fact. When we all came down with Covid-19 at the same time, I had the growing sensation that …
Read More »Market Gardens in the Algarve: A Marriage of Artichoke and Oyster Mushrooms
Saturday 23rd March 2024. Market gardening – the worldwide trend of small-scale farming based on the use of organic and regenerative farming techniques has arrived in the Algarve. More and …
Read More »The Navigator Company – a subsidiary of SEMAPA PLC
Saturday 9th March 2024. Using the forest as a resource for doing business – with eucalyptus monocultures – is something that always works in favour of the Navigator Company. Even …
Read More »Dirty money? That’ll be from Brussels and Luxembourg.
Saturday 2nd March 2024. Can you smell the money? My first forest fire arrived without any declaration of war, yet we are now engaged in a battle that has been …
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Zero Emissions soon in Torres Vedras? Portugal’s first municipality with a serious climate action plan
Saturday 10th February 2024. Portugal has 308 municipalities. One of these is Torres Vedras. Located 54 km north-west of Lisbon, it covers an area of 407 km². The medium-sized city, …
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