An ambitious shelter project that seeks to become the blueprint for animal rescue and rehoming refuges throughout the country is in danger of being stopped in its tracks.

Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg is expected to arrive in Lisbon “at the beginning of December” after sailing across the Atlantic on her way to the Madrid Climate Change Summit.

Back in 2017, then-U.K. Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson emphasised that his country would never turn its back on Portugal, one of its closest allies since 1386. Some of his fellow brits are doing otherwise.

It has been a difficult and very emotional path, but the last ten years of the National Iberian Lynx Breeding Centre (CNRLI), which has been operating since 2009 in Silves, can only be seen overall as “very positive” by Rodrigo Serra, the centre director.

The fire forced the 67 elderly residents of the Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Ourique nursing home had to be evacuated after it broke out in the dining area around 9 pm last night, Tuesday November 26th.

The Faro Beach Campsite has returned to the hands of the City Council, as of Monday morning. The eviction of the campsite residents occurred “peacefully”, and now renovation works will finally go ahead after months of delays.

PSD MEP Maria da Graça Carvalho, during a speech at a Strasbourg plenary session, has called for the European Union to draw up a contingency plan to deal with the effects of extreme droughts affecting various areas of Portugal, namely the Alentejo and the Algarve, with measures to provide immediate and long-term answers to this problem.

The GNR issues 77 fines for illegal caravanning, throughout today, November 26th, on the beaches of Amado, Barranco, Ingrina and the Ponto da Fisga site in Vila do Bispo.