Environmental causes that Ulmeiro documents and verifies, but which don't currently have an active petition or public consultation for you to take part in. We're keeping an eye on them — as soon as a concrete action opens up, the cause moves to the main page.
Savannah Resources wants to open an open-pit mine in a centuries-old farming area. Protest camp August 6-10.
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The company Palácio da Comenda is seeking private ownership of five beaches and a municipal road through the courts. The petition delivered to Parliament already has over 8,900 signatures.
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232 registered quarries, over half with no valid environmental recovery plan.
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Seven organizations demand Secil present a plan to decommission its quarries in a protected area.
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4,592 incidents burned over 30,000 hectares — the largest area burned in this period since 2017.
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A 50-hectare tourist resort on the country's second-largest reservoir, with no Environmental Impact Assessment.
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EDP's largest solar plant in Europe, with "very significant" impacts on Bonelli's eagle and protected bats.
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The Government replaces prior environmental assessment with after-the-fact inspection under "simplification".
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More than 100 municipalities still haven't submitted mandatory climate action plans.
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Lisbon's new airport moved to Alcochete, threatening over 250,000 cork oaks and the country's largest freshwater reserve.
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Castile and León refused the permit for an open-pit mine a few km from the Portuguese border.
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455,000 hectares identified as priority areas for solar and wind, several overlapping critical conservation territories.
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A second 56-hectare golf course, called by ZERO "incompatible with the water emergency" facing the Algarve.
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The City Council and the whole Beira Baixa region issued an unfavourable opinion on the acceleration zone programme.
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Behind "technological sovereignty" sits a legal fight over seawater and Europe's largest solar plant, forest felling included.
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Quercus-Madeira challenges the decision for not ruling out impact on the critically endangered Zino's petrel.
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Intensifying dairy production is choking São Miguel's lakes with excess fertilizer and runoff.
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After more than 20 years of campaigning, ICNF has proposed a 400-hectare Natural Reserve, but the Praia Grande Eco-Resort tourism project still threatens the wetland.
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An open-pit tungsten mine is moving forward 2 km from the border without the cross-border impact assessment required by law, threatening the water supply of 14 Portuguese villages.
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After two years of opposition from five Alentejo municipalities and an unfavourable environmental ruling, EDP abandoned the 154 MW hybrid project on the Alqueva reservoir.
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Over 1,700 citizens are asking Madeira's regional parliament to block buildings up to 20 storeys high in Funchal, after the Regional Government defended revising the municipal master plan.
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