World Wetlands Day

Feb. 2, 2023

In Portugal, only 1.8 % of the territory is occupied by wetlands, and only 31 sites were designated to integrate the Ramsar Convention, 13 of which are in the Azores.

The Regional Secretariat for the Environment and Climate Change, through the REACT-EU programme, contemplates several projects in the reprogramming of the Azores 2020 OP, being one of them the peat biomass assessment and peatland recovery project, which will be an asset for the preservation of these areas with unique characteristics and high ecological value.