The crowdfunding campaign intends to extend the area of the international Tagus on about 680 hectares of native forest and fauna in danger of extinction.
For 30 years, Quercus has launched a pioneering campaigns in the environmental association movement in Portugal to acquire land for nature conservation in the Tejo international zone. The initiative aimed to protect endangered fauna and flora in this area in order to prevent the native forest and endangered fauna from being destroyed by eucalyptus plantations and illegal logging. At the time they were able to raise funds to acquire 600 hectares, which over the last 30 years have given rise to several reserves that have been intervened to promote the recovery of biodiversity. Thanks to these efforts, species such as the black vulture and the Iberian imperial eagle have been re-nesting in Portugal, priority habitats such as the "tamujais" and several species of threatened flora such as the Portuguese lily have recovered in these areas.
The new crowdfunding campaign aims to extend one of these reserves by an additional 80 hectares, in an area that limits another property where Quercus already has 430ha. The new land will allow the restoration of another 800 meters of margins of the Ribeira do Marmelal, a water course with priority habitats of conservation like the "tamujais" and "freixiais" and with presence of species like the cracked carapace turtle and the Portuguese bogue. This acquisition will also allow the conservation of an additional 40ha of cork forest and 20ha of Azinhal forest where several hundred other species live, some of which are in danger of extinction.
With the acquisition of this area of more than 680ha, Quercurs will be able to continue to protect natural values, promote knowledge and protect biodiversity. It also promotes environmental education and awareness raising, nature tourism, reforestation and recovery of water lines, a vulture feeder, removal of invasive alien species, discarded nature of recovered specimens, and many other initiatives. A work that has been done in partnership and synergistically with other local actors, local residents associations, municipalities, companies and public authorities. Therefore, help in what you can for the conservation of an ecosystem essential for the life and fauna of the national territory.
