Projects

 

In January 2023, Palombar joined the Network of Ambassadors of the European Stag Beetle project, whose main objective is to compile and organise information sent by citizens on the distribution and status of populations of the largest beetle in Europe: the European Stag Beetle. 

The 'LIFE Aegypius return - Consolidating and expanding the Cinereous Vulture population in Portugal' project, funded by the LIFE Program of the European Union and which started in September 2022, has as main objectives to increase the population of the cinereous vulture and improve its conservation status and threat status in Portugal. 

In 2022, Palombar signed a collaboration agreement with the LIFE EUROKITE project, whose main objective is to promote the protection and conservation of the red kite in Europe, in a transboundary approach and with a focus on reducing the mortality of the species associated with anthropic threats, using telemetry. 

On May 17, 2022, Palombar signed the protocol of the project 'Cereal Fields with Biodiversity: Save the Montagu's harrier', which aims to protect and conserve this one of the species of terrestrial fauna most threatened with extinction in Portugal.

Watch the videos

• Protecting the Montagu's Harrier
• Cereal Fields with Biodiversity: Save the Montagu's harrier - from wheat cultivation to environmentally sustainable bread production

Palombar signs a collaboration protocol to join the European Observatory of Wildlife, which promotes population and health monitoring of wildlife in Europe and was created under the European project ENETWILD. 

The project 'Hands on - Volunteering teams for Rural and Natural Heritage' of Palombar - Nature and Rural Heritage Conservation, developed and approved in the scope of the Volunteering in High Priority Areas programme of the European Solidarity Corps of the European Union, has as its main objective to promote the restoration and conservation of the rural and natural heritage of the Northeast Transmontano and will be implemented during 2022. 

Palombar, together with the Peripécia Teatro company, produced an environmental awareness documentary about vultures based on the theatre play 'Essay on Vultures' and aimed at schools.

 

iMammalia App - PT version. In October 2021, Palombar established a collaboration with the Institute for Research on Hunting Resources of the University of Castilla-La Mancha, in Spain, under the European project MammalNet, being responsible for the translation and adaptation of the iMammalia app to Portuguese.

Palombar organized, in October 2021, the 'Networking Event - What if the Brown Bear comes back?', an Iberian event whose main objective was to debate in advance what may be one of the great challenges of nature conservation in Portugal: the potential return of the brown bear (Ursus arctos) to the north of the country and its coexistence with humans, and to lay the foundations for future cross-border actions for the conservation of the species on national territory. 

In September 2021, Palombar established a collaboration with the Institute for Research on Hunting Resources of the University of Castilla-La Mancha (IREC, UCLM-CSIC-JCCM) in Spain, as part of the ENETWILD international project. 

In 2021, Palombar signed a collaboration agreement with CIBIO-InBIO - Research Centre on Biodiversity and Genetic Resources, Associated Laboratory of the University of Porto, under the international project LIFEPLAN - A Planetary Inventory of Life, coordinated by the University of Helsinki, Finland.

The Environmental Fund approves Palombar's application 'Evaluation of the Vulnerability of Wildlife to Illegal Use of Poisons and Reinforcement of the Sentinels Network against Threats to Wildlife', developed in partnership with the University of Oviedo in Spain, which has reinforced the Sentinels project started in 2019 to create a Networking for Monitoring Threats to Wildlife.

Palombar creates the first Birds Ringing Station of Constant Effort (EAEC, in the Portuguese acronym) in Trás-os-Montes region, located in the village of Vila Chã da Ribeira (municipality of Vimioso), with the main goal of contributing to the scientific study of the birdlife present in the region. 

Palombar was responsible for the 'Lote 3 - Northeast os Trás-os-Montes region" of the National Census of the Iberian Wolf 2019-2021, coordinated by Institute for the Conservation of Nature and Forests.

The Natura 2000 Passport application (app) for mobile devices works as a digital passport that allows you to discover the nature, heritage and communities of Natura 2000 Network areas in Portugal, the world's largest network of protected areas for nature. 

Palombar has a collaboration protocol with the University of Oviedo Foundation (FUO), in Spain, with a view to develop several projects in the area of nature conservation and biodiversity, in partnership with this higher education institution.  

In 2019, the Biodiversity HotSpot project was approved by the Environmental Fund, which is developed by Palombar and AEPGA in the SCI Sabor and Maçãs Rivers.

Palombar is part of the consortium SACR - Active Sensitization of the Rural Community, together with AEPGA - Association for the Study and Protection of Asinine Cattle, under which the project 'FOR A DROP - for the efficient use of water' was developed. This project is financed by the Environmental Fund.  

Between 2007 and 2009, Palombar was one of six local organizations involved in the implementation of the 'Emergency Plan for the Recovery of Three Rupicolous Birds Species in the Douro International Natural Park' (PEAR).