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22/02/2025

Fritillaria lusitanica - Ria Formosa Nature Park / Olhão / Algarve / Portugal 21.02.2025
Endemic plant of the Iberian pen*sula. Perennial bulbous herb with thin leaves; a single (purple-brown colored and bell-shaped, with yellow-green stripes inside) flower.
It can be found in stony places, shrubland and woodland clearings.
Although the beauty is astonishing, the flowers have an unpleasant smell that attracts a huge variety of insects.
It is a harbinger that the winter has already begun to give its place to spring.

02/02/2025

World Wetlands Day
2 February
United Nations:
Wetlands for our common future
Wetlands are ecosystems, in which water is the primary factor controlling the environment and the associated plant and animal life. A broad definition of wetlands includes both freshwater and marine and coastal ecosystems, such as all lakes and rivers, underground aquifers, swamps and marshes, wet grasslands, peatlands, oases, estuaries, deltas and tidal flats, mangroves and other coastal areas, coral reefs, and all human-made sites such as fishponds, rice paddies, reservoirs and saltpans.

These lands are critical to people and nature, given the intrinsic value of these ecosystems, and their benefits and services, including their environmental, climate, ecological, social, economic, scientific, educational, cultural, recreational and aesthetic contributions to sustainable development and human wellbeing.

Alhough they cover only around 6 per cent of the Earth’s land surface, 40 per cent of all plant and animal species live or breed in wetlands. Wetland biodiversity matters for our health, our food supply, for tourism and for jobs. Wetlands are vital for humans, for other ecosystems and for our climate, providing essential ecosystem services, such as water regulation, including flood control and water purification. More than a billion people across the world depend on wetlands for their livelihoods – that’s about one in eight people on Earth.

Photo of Ria Formosa Nature Park / Algarve / Portugal

16/01/2025

Lovely picnic spot in nature.
Serra do Caldeirão / Algarve / Portugal

14/01/2025

Malcolmia littorea
Sand Stock / Goivinhos / Julienne des sables
Ria Formosa Nature Park / Olhão / Algarve / Portugal

16/12/2024

11/12/2024

Dez. 11 - International Mountain day
Photo: Vyacheslav Argenberg

04/12/2024

Psilogaster loti
Mariposa-dos-sargaços / Bombyx du Lotier
28.11.2024 - Cerro da Cabeça / Olhão / Algarve / Portugal

25/11/2024

The wetlands of the Ria Formosa Nature Park are a complex ecosystem that creates conditions for a huge biodiversity.
Ria Formosa / Algarve / Portugal / Europe / Planet Hearth

24/11/2024

Kingfisher's territorial defending behaviour.

17/11/2024

"foot-trembling", an interesting behaviour.

11/11/2024

Rocha da Pena Walk - 08.11.2024
Partnership with Go2algarve

31/10/2024

Steropleurus pseudolus

Saddle Bush-cricket / Grilo-de-Sela

13.10.2018 - Serra do Caldeirão / Algarve / Portugal

03/10/2024

Série documental, brevemente na RTP1.

18/09/2024

Himantopus himantopus

10/09/2024

The Atlas of Portugal Larger Moths!. A brand new book, first edition, just delivered.
Project website: https://www.reborboletasn.org/

19/08/2024

The Queen flower of the Ria Formosa Nature Park / Algarve / Portugal 18.08.2024
Pancratium maritimum / Amaryllidaceae / Asparagales
Sea daffodil / Lírio-das praias / Dünen-Trichternarzisse / Lis maritime / Giglio di mare / Pankracjum nadmorskie / Strandlilja / طيطان بحري