Let’s plant forests together!
Our Mission
Restore Nature Foundation (RNF) is an NGO with the mission to restore forest ecosystems and enable people to take regenerative action now!
We plant using the most impactful regenerative methods to bring back resilient forests. We facilitate educational events to spread regenerative knowledge. We support landowners through regenerative consultancy.
We operate mostly in Southern Portugal, one of the driest, most fire prone and degraded areas of Europe. On the frontline of Europe’s desertification processes, we use nature’s power to bring back the forests that were once here, and restore balance for planet Earth.
Healthy forests ecosystems are vital for:
- Restoring biodiversity
- Creating animal habitat
- Restoring water cycles
- Creating fertile soil
- Storing massive amounts of CO2
- Producing an abundance of food and the air we breath
- Regulating temperatures
- Creating food and natural resilience
- Restoring balance for planet Earth
Our approach
Europe was once covered by forests. And together we can help them return.
Planting trees: Biodiversity
Imitating the original forest: it's layers and species
Restoring the watercycle
Catching water in the landscape, hydrating the land
Improving soil conditions
Organic matter, compost, fungi, microorganismsBecome part of the movement!
Adopt your piece of forest
Adopt squared meters of land on which we will plant a ‘nest’: a micro ecosystem of native trees and plants based on regenerative principles. For only €10 you can adopt a square meter that has a regenerative impact for years and which contributes to bringing back biodiverse forest ecosystems to one of the most degraded areas of Europe!
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Join our events!
Join our events where we share regenerative practices, exchange with other regenerators, and put our hands in the soil together. These events often take place around the Barao de Sao Joao area in the Algarve, Portugal.
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Have us visit your land
Get a deeper understanding of your land and its potential through our regenerative services, ranging from consultancy, design, implementation and maintenance. We are here to help and empower you to use nature’s wisdom to regenerate the land you care for.
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Join our events!
Join our events where we share regenerative practices, exchange with other regenerators, and put our hands in the soil together. These events often take place around the Barao de Sao Joao area in the Algarve, Portugal.
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three core pillars: biodiversity, water management, soil health
We imitate the forest dynamics, layers and species. We plant in high density, with high native biodiversity, taking into account the light needs of the different species (stratification), the life cycles of species (natural succession), soil life mobilization and protection and careful management to boost the forest systems.
Restoring the water cycle
catching water in the landscape, hydrating land, ‘planting’ water
Improving soil conditions
Through compost, organic matter, minerals, mulch, fungi, bacteria
Planting forests
imitating the original forest, it’s layers, dynamics and species
