PortuGreen - native reforestation

What is the issue: Small forest with a lot of invasive plants and good examples of native trees that could be injured by the invasive or loose space and opportunity to spread because of the lack of space.

What should be done: Remove the invasive species to gain space to plant more native plants, monitor their fixation and if the invasive keeps growing or not. If it is needed, implement more actions against the invasions.

Expected results: By the end of the project make sure that every plant planted is alive. Measure the area gained by the invasive species cleaning to propose future plantations.

Phytoremediation water treatment system

What is the issue: Bad quality of a stream water due to organic pollution. The stream goes directly to a big river increasing its pollution.

What should be done: Construction of ponds with canvas, gavel and plants to extract the pollution out of the water. Create actions to improve the margins of the stream effect by planting riparian plants.

Expected results: Check if the ponds structure hold with the water variation; analyse the plants fixation in the ponds; analyse the margins structure and the plants colonization.

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