The project seeks to boost extensive grazing as a landscape management mechanism, from fire risk management to soil carbon sequestration.

To this end, it works on three main pillars: improving the productivity of farms; improving the governance of local communities in the management of their mountains; and communicating with society, particularly in terms of valorising the products resulting from economic activities in the mountains.

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Field Trip Programme:
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09.00 Departure from UTAD
9.45 Visit a Maronesa (a bovine breed originating in the north of Portugal) cowshed and visit the wasteland to understand how the mountain is managed with the animals, in the typical village of Alvadia (Ribeira de Pena Municipallity), Alvão Natural Park
13.00 Lunch at the local restaurant
15.30 Visit a cattle guard for Maronesa and grazing plots in other typical village, Soutelinho (Vila Pouca de Aguiar Municipallity), Alvão NP
16.45 Departure to Vila Real
17.30 Expected arrival at UTAD, Vila Real