A clear stream running over granite boulders under alder and oak, Portugal
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Inner-city Lisbon, Portugal

Lisbon

A dense native mini forest for an inner-city neighbourhood.

about 300 m²Area
Urban mini forestType
Matched with Faia BravaWild project
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Lisbon has learned how to grow small forests fast. Dense plantings of native trees, packed close so they race each other for light, become self-sustaining in a few years. This patch brings that method to a neighbourhood that needs shade, and ties it to the Côa Valley three hundred kilometres to the north-east.

What is being created

The work
  • A native mini forest in the inner city
  • Shade and cooler streets
Wildlife returning
  • Native Mediterranean trees and shrubs
  • Habitat for birds and pollinators in a dense district
a planted green corridor of young trees and wildflowers running between inner-city Lisbon apartment blocks

At a glance

Location
Inner-city Lisbon, PortugalIberia · Portugal
Area
about 300 m²
Type
Urban mini forest
Ecosystem
Mediterranean urban forest
Community
Planted with residents and local schools.
Run by
Whole Wild World
Verification
Partner reported

Links

Where it connects

Lisbon and Faia Brava

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

A clear stream running over granite boulders under alder and oak, Portugal Lisbon
the Coa river winding through schist cliffs and open pasture in the Faia Brava reserve Faia Brava 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
Urban · Lisbon£12.50
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. 2026

    Site and partner confirmed

  2. Autumn 2026

    Planting season

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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