Projects

We implement our Biodiversity Strategy through various projects that lead to habitat regeneration, climate change adaptation, biodiversity promotion, and ecosystem renaturalisation. Healthy ecosystems clean water, purify the air, maintain soil, regulate climate, recycle nutrients, and provide food.

In 2015, we created the Square Meter Program - Native Forest Tree Maintenance Program. This program adopts areas of native forest undergoing ecological rehabilitation, ensuring a set of operations that maintain these areas during the first 4 years after the initial intervention. We know that these first years are particularly critical, and, in this way, we increase the survival rate of the trees planted in these areas.

The 2023/2024 campaign corresponds to the 7th year of the Square Meter Program, in which we developed a work plan for intervention areas with less than 4 years old, which included a set of annual maintenance operations, and a work plan for intervention areas over 4 years old, through a follow-up plan that required biennial inspections/maintenance.

The Tinto River is characterised by strong human activity, with the use of the banks along almost its entire course. Examples include agricultural fields, houses built in floodplains, illicit connections that discharge directly into the river, and the consequent increase in pollution.

As such, given its importance to LIPOR and the surrounding community, we promote a Monitoring Program for the Evaluation of the Water and Sediment Quality of the Tinto River, contributing to identifying the causes of water quality degradation. Subsequently, based on this assessment, we define a set of interventions for the recovery of the river and its banks.

When visiting the river by our facilities, it is possible to observe a set of natural engineering practices on the river's banks and bed, resulting from an intervention that aims to return the river to the community and allow its enjoyment, particularly with the LIPOR Ecological Trail.

Furthermore, in 2015, we recreated the figure of the "River Guard," with daily surveillance functions along the stretch of the Tinto River that borders LIPOR's facilities, filling out a daily Inspection Bulletin, and a monthly Report compiled and sent to Project Partners.