Climate activist Greta Thunberg won the first edition of the Gulbenkian Prize for Humanity. The award, one million euros, will be fully donated.…
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Audubon Society has recently announced in New York the names of the five photographers, among more than 2300, that wined the 6th edition of these awards. Melissa Groo was the grand prize winner.…
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We haven’t seen nothing like this for 13 years. A pair of ospreys was recently spotted in a nest by the sea in Costa Vicentina, Algarve. This species stopped breeding in Portugal in 1997.…
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Kayakweru, a female of two years old, died from poisoning in the south of Portugal, just after two weeks of having been released in to the wild, the results of the necropsy and forensic analysis show.…
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This story has 128 years. It’s about a small mammal, a shrew, from Príncipe Island. Francisco Newton collected the specimen at the end of the 19th century. This month, Luís and Mariana helped to describe it as a new species in a scientific study published in “Mammalia” scientific journal.…
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We celebrate this spring with a fine selection of the most recently published books on nature writing by Portuguese, Spanish, French and British authors.…
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Get to know the nature symphonies of the oak forests, estuaries, and marshes and listen to the sound of a red squirrel or a fish. Wilder talked to Paulo Marques, coordinator of the National Archive of Nature Sounds of Portugal.…
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Deer, eagles, chameleons, rivers and forests are the protagonists of a wild Portugal removed from behind the scenes and put on stage by Daniel Pinheiro. He gives them time and importance so that we can see what we cannot by ourselves. How can someone turn others into Nature lovers?…
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Now that the Butterfly Garden of Portuguese Natural History Museum is open once again, after having been closed for the winter, we give you the best ideas to enjoy in full a visit to the species that live in Portugal.…
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Andrea Schmidt decided what she wanted to do with her life when she saw a humpback whale with her young passing right before her eyes near Abrolhos islands, Brazil.…
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Marília Santos has spent a year drawing crabs, mussels, barnacles, anemones and many other inhabitants of tide pools. This project of illustrating species living in the intertidal zones on Portuguese coast has revealed her a whole new universe of wildlife unknown to her until then.…
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