A loggerhead turtle named Salina, released back into the sea by Porto d’Abrigo, the Zoomarine Marine Species Rehabilitation Centre, in 2022 after a year of treatment, has travelled a staggering 9,203 kilometres since her return to the wild.
Hundreds of pupils gathered outside João de Deus Secondary School in Faro on Tuesday morning, taking to the streets to mark the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. Dressed in black with purple accents, students handed out protest signs, before then marching through the city centre.
The cemetery of Alhos Vedros, in the municipality of Moita, Setúbal, has been targeted by vandals, with authorities suspecting the desecration of human remains after several graves were found opened and bodies mutilated. At least ten corpses have been transferred to the National Institute of Forensic Medicine for examination and evidence-gathering to determine whether they were indeed subjected to desecration..
A major operation by the Judicial Police (PJ) targeting illegal immigration networks led to the arrest, early on Tuesday morning, of ten National Republican Guard (GNR) officers and one Public Security Police (PSP) officer, along with several business owners in the Alentejo region. The suspects are being investigated for aiding illegal immigration, forgery, tax fraud, and money laundering.
The Judiciary Police (PJ) detained eleven members of the Fundão Volunteer Fire Brigade on Tuesday, suspected of committing two counts of rape and one of sexual coercion against another firefighter, a 19-year-old man.
The Institute for Nature Conservation and Forests (ICNF) has revealed that the number of Iberian lynx cubs born across the various captive-breeding centres for this endangered species, in both Spain and the Algarve’s Silves, has this year exceeded that of recent years.
Protection efforts based at the Ria Formosa Natural Park in the eastern Algarve has received high praise, boasting restored habitats, thriving protected species, and a strengthened ecological resilience in “one of the country’s most fragile and important coastal areas”. These feathers added to the park’s cap have been largely tied to the six-year LIFE Ilhas Barreira project, which, according to the Portuguese Society for the Study of Birds (SPEA), sets in stone “solid foundations for the future conservation” of the Ria Formosa.
Following the first-ever solemn parliamentary session dedicated to 25 November, held in the Assembly of the Republic last year, the Government are taking a step further this year, announcing back in August, following a Cabinet meeting, the creation of a commission to organise the 50th-anniversary commemorations of 25 November.
