LIFE LUPILYNX brings together six organisations from Portugal and Spain working in nature conservation in the regions of Guarda, Castelo Branco and Extremadura.
Rewilding Portugal is a private non-profitorganisation, established in January 2019 in Guarda, whose mission is topromote nature conservation through rewilding measures in Portugal. Its work iscurrently centred on the Greater Côa Valley and Beira Alta areas, regions wherehigh rates of rural abandonment have created opportunities to bring natureback.
The Greater Côa Valley region is an importantwildlife corridor for many of the region's species and strengthening thiscorridor could play an important role in the recovery of rare species such asthe black stork and the Iberian wolf. Rewilding Portugal is Rewilding Europe'smain partner in the rewilding of the Greater Côa Valley and is working closelywith Rewilding Europe to achieve the common goal of making Portugal a wilderplace.
The project receives co-funding from the following programmes and institutions:
The LIFE programme isthe European Union's funding instrument for the environment and climate action,created in 1992. Every year, the European Commission, which manages the LIFEprogramme, launches a call for proposals and, on the basis of criteria thattake into account the multi-annual strategic programme and national priorities,determines which of the proposed projects can benefit from financial supportfrom the LIFE programme and regularly publishes a list of these projects.
Rewilding Europe is a non-profit foundation based in the Netherlands since 2011. As an independent organisation, Rewilding Europe has established itself as a pan-European initiative, operating at the forefront of rewilding efforts on a European scale. Together with numerous partners at European, national and local level, Rewilding Europe is active in ten major rewilding landscapes across Europe.
