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An Iberian wolf walking downhill through low rosemary scrub and grass, head lowered and tongue out, with dense green vegetation behind it

Fifty Shepherds Gathered at a Fairground in Miranda do Douro to Say the Wolf Compensation Arrives Two Years Late, or Not at All

Producers from Miranda do Douro, Vimioso and Mogadouro protested at Naso on Sunday. One says two calves went unpaid for nearly two years; another spent 500 euros treating injured ewes and received nothing.

The Portugal Brief 07 Sep 2026

A steel high-voltage transmission tower carrying several conductor lines above a hillside of eucalyptus woodland near Rio Maior in central Portugal, under a clear sky.

One Billion Euros for a Power Cable to Morocco, and the Case the Minister Makes for It Is the Blackout

The link goes ahead only with private or European money, Maria da Graça Carvalho said on Friday, calling it still a conversation. The justification has quietly moved from exporting clean power to restarting the grid alone after an outage.

The Portugal Brief 05 Sep 2026

Rolling Alentejo farmland at Castro Verde, ploughed red and brown earth between lines of widely spaced holm oaks running along the crest of a low hill under a clear blue sky.

Portugal's Environment Agencies Are About to Be Redrawn: River Basin Directorates for the APA, Central Control of Impact Assessments for the ICNF

Maria da Graça Carvalho told Lusa on Friday that the restructuring is practically ready and heading for the Council of Ministers. The first concrete detail points one way: decision-making moves from the regional offices to the centre.

The Portugal Brief 05 Sep 2026

A Transavia Boeing 737 parked on the apron at Lisbon's Humberto Delgado airport with Portway boarding steps and ground crew alongside, TAP and Wizz Air tails and the Tagus behind

Two Weeks Out of Thirty-Five: How Often Lisbon's Airport Respected Its Night-Flight Limit This Year

ZERO counts 4,647 movements between midnight and six since January, 1,465 of them above the legal ceilings, and has launched a public tracker. It is 536 days since the government announced a curfew between 01:00 and 05:00 that is still not in force.

The Portugal Brief 04 Sep 2026

The painted sea wall of Horta marina on Faial in the Azores, covered in sailors' murals, with the white town and green hills behind

A Study of 1,577 Pieces of Litter on Faial and Pico Traced Most of It to Lobster Boats in Maine

Okeanos researchers at the University of the Azores read the identification tags on stranded lobster-trap plastic: 63 percent came from the United States, 76 percent of those from Maine, carrying dates from 1983 to 2023.

The Portugal Brief 02 Sep 2026

A Lisbon street waste-collection point with metal underground bin hatches, a blue used cooking oil container and a red bin, beside parked cars

The Environment Minister Concedes the Volta Deposit Scheme Has Problems, Starting With the People Emptying Recycling Bins for the 10-Cent Refund

Maria da Graça Carvalho told journalists in Brussels that festivals, the hospitality trade, too few machines and people rummaging bins for the 10-cent refund are all being worked on case by case. Dedicated containers beside existing bins are under study.

The Portugal Brief 01 Sep 2026

A group of cork oaks with bark stripped to the red inner trunk, standing beside a dirt track in backlit Portuguese woodland

Covilhã's Master Plan Would Clear 1,400 Cork Oaks for an Industrial Park, and the Council's Own Environmental Report Contradicts Itself About Them

Quercus says the Tortosendo expansion would fell about 1,400 protected cork oaks, dozens of them centuries old, days before the consultation closes on 4 September. Page 368 of the council's report both records cork oak forest and denies finding any.

The Portugal Brief 01 Sep 2026

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