Guides
Cutting Down a Tree on Your Own Land in Portugal
Most trees on your land need no permit. Cork oaks, holm oaks, olive groves, wild holly, and classified trees do. How to apply, and the fines if you do not.
ICNF
News
Médio Tejo Sub-Regional Civil-Protection Command Activates Three Extra Bombeiros Teams and 15 Reinforcements From Tuesday — Storm Kristin Debris Race Targets Early-July Clear-Through Ahead of DECIR Delta
The Médio Tejo sub-regional emergency and civil-protection command activates three additional firefighting teams and 15 extra personnel from Tuesday, 16 June, in a stepped-up posture that runs into the DECIR Delta (Dispositivo Especial de Combate a...
News
Direção-Geral de Reinserção e Serviços Prisionais Opens Arsonist Rehabilitation Programme Across Seven Prisons in July — Kent-Adapted Firesetting Intervention Anchors the 88-Convict Pipeline
The Direção-Geral de Reinserção e Serviços Prisionais (Directorate-General for Reintegration and Prison Services, DGRSP) will roll out an arsonist rehabilitation programme across seven Portuguese prisons from July 2026, adapting the University of...
News
Estado Triages 6,321 Hectares of Storm-Kristin Damaged Forest — 19.4% of the Zona Centro's 32,634-Hectare Critical Map Heads Into the Priority Cleanup Pipeline Ahead of the Fire Peak
The Government has narrowed the post-Kristin forest cleanup map to a priority core. The Ministério da Agricultura e Pescas (Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries), working through the Instituto da Conservação da Natureza e das Florestas (Institute...
Environment
Ambiente Tables a €500 Million-a-Year Plano Nacional de Restauro da Natureza With 407 Measures — One-Month Public Consultation Opens Ahead of August EU Brussels Submission
The Ministry of Environment presented the PNRN — a €500 million-a-year, 407-measure nature-restoration plan with a one-month public consultation ahead of the August EU submission deadline.
Wildfire
ANEPC Stages the 1 July Período Crítico Across Continental Portugal — Decreto-Lei 124/2006 SNDFCI Restrictions on Queimadas, Foguetes and Outdoor Smoking Kick In Through 30 September Alongside the DECIF Charlie Peak Deployment
Tuesday 1 July activates the Período Crítico under Decreto-Lei 124/2006 SNDFCI — across continental Portugal the queimadas-foguetes-smoking restrictions kick in through 30 September alongside the DECIF Charlie peak deployment, the Black Hawk reinforcement and the AGIF coordination.
Guides
The Iberian Lynx in Portugal and Where to See One
How many Iberian lynx live in Portugal, where they are, the new Serra da Malcata release area, safe driving in lynx country, and what to do if you see one.