AFTER 2006 - PORTUGAL, WHERE I LIVE

I haven't written here for a long time, since I definitely came back from Costa Rica. I didn't write, not because I had nothing to tell. Actually, my life is still a journey, an everyday journey... But it seems I am spending more and more time living, and less and less time in front of a computer. Which is good!

I am living in Portugal now, since June 2006. And the first thing I did, after being at home for 4 days, was registering to do a course on birds of prey, at the Douro International Park, at the border with Spain. It was an amazing experience and finally I met some people, from my own country, who work in conservation and with birds of prey. I made a lot of friends and started working as a biologist in a project dealing with the impact of powerlines in birds, until December 2006. I travelled all over the country and walked an average of 40 km a day, under powerlines, looking for dead birds.

After that, I finally moved to my first real house, in the Guarda district, to a town called Figueira de Castelo Rodrigo, near the Douro International Park. Here are some pictures from where I live and work... It is an amazing place!

ATN flyer. Associação transumância e natureza... NGO where I work. more information at www.ATNatureza.org

Group of volunteers that came to the Côa valley to help us in our cliff-breeders project! They were amazing! Great people! In the picture is also Klein, one of my 3 dogs! :)

Me and Jorge searching for new important bird areas. This was a trip we did last year, searching for bonelli's eagles, with our friend António.

Feeding our garrano horses at the Faia Brava Local Reserve... I love my job!

Aren't they beautiful?

This picture was taken by my brother at an event we organized at ATN (Festa da Pecuária - Cattle Fest). It was organized to remind people of traditions that are being lost in a region that is being devastated by wildfires and land abandonement. This is Castelo Rodrigo, a castle near my house.

Salomé, Patrícia, Sílvia and Gonçalo came to visit when I moved to Figueira. this is a trip we did to the Douro International Park.

I'll continue this post... soon