the Coa river winding through schist cliffs and open pasture in the Faia Brava reserve
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Faia Brava reserve, Côa Valley, Portugal

Faia Brava

The Eternal Forest planting inside Portugal's first private nature reserve.

about 1,000 haArea
Private protected area, forest plantingType
Matched with LisbonCity patch
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Faia Brava became Portugal's first private protected area twenty-five years ago. Griffon and Egyptian vultures, golden and Bonelli's eagles nest on its schist cliffs; Garrano horses graze the slopes. Eternal Forest, a planting campaign founded by the artist Evgenia Emets, works with ATN to plant a dense native forest sanctuary of about twelve hectares inside the reserve: five hundred trees in November 2025, twelve hundred more in February 2026.

What is being created

The work
  • A twelve-hectare native forest sanctuary inside the reserve, kept for a thousand years
  • Oak woodland returning to former farmland
Wildlife returning
  • Griffon and Egyptian vulture
  • Golden and Bonelli's eagle, black stork
  • Wildcat, otter, roe deer, Garrano horse
Species
Griffon vultureEgyptian vultureGolden eagleWildcat
an Iberian lynx walking through dry grass

At a glance

Location
Faia Brava reserve, Côa Valley, PortugalIberia · Portugal
Area
about 1,000 ha
Type
Private protected area, forest planting
Ecosystem
Cork, holm and Portuguese oak woodland, schist canyons
Community
Planting days open to volunteers; the Côa Valley is a UNESCO World Heritage rock art landscape.
Run by
Associação Transumância e Natureza (ATN)
Verification
Restor listed

Links

Also working with Coa Park Foundation.

Where it connects

Faia Brava and Lisbon

Half of every gift to this pair is spent here, half in Lisbon, 301 km away.

the Coa river winding through schist cliffs and open pasture in the Faia Brava reserve Faia Brava
A clear stream running over granite boulders under alder and oak, Portugal Lisbon Read the story
about 300 m²in the city
about 1,000 hain the wild
301 kmbetween them

Funding

Funding target£18,000

What the money does

  • Native saplings and soil
  • Two years of watering while the forest establishes
  • A community planting day
  • Native trees and planting days
  • Care and watering in the first summers
  • Vulture nest monitoring on the cliffs
£25one-off giftGrowing Impact

Plants, soil and the first year of care in the city and the wild.

A clear stream running over granite boulders under alder and oak, Portugal
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the Coa river winding through schist cliffs and open pasture in the Faia Brava reserve
Wild · Faia Brava£12.50
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Updates

  1. November 2025

    First 500 trees planted at the Eternal Forest launch

  2. February 2026

    1,200 more native trees and plants planted

  3. 2026 onward

    Care, monitoring and further planting seasons

Bare prepared ground with a handful of very small saplings just planted, a stone wall and rock face behind

No field reports yet. The first arrives after the first planting day.

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