“The Noudar Nature Park” (Bárbara Pinto, Director of Noudar Park, Susana Rosa, Biologist, EDIA, Portugal) Session 2, Topic 4: "Green Jobs" ISLE Professionalization Fair. Lisbon, Portugal, 8-9/11/2011 www.isle-project.eu

1. GREEN JOBS
AN EXAMPLE FROM SOUTHEAST PORTUGAL
SUSANA ROSA ISA, 9 November 2011

2. Where?
PNN is located in SE Portugal, 10km NW of Barrancos (3h by car from
Lisbon or Faro airports)
The property of ca. 1000ha is limited by Rio Ardila in the north and Rio
Murtega in the south

3. History and purpose
The property was bought in 1997 by EDIA, S.A. in the scope of the
Alqueva dam Environmental Management Program as a Compensation
Measure for the loss of natural habitats .
In the PNN a sustainable agro-silvo-pastoral management plan is in
practice based in management prescriptions resulting from the PNN
Biodiversity Monitoring Program.

4. GREEN JOBS
ACCORDING TO
are (…) work in agricultural, manufacturing, research and
development (R & D), administrative, and service
activities that contribute substantially to preserving or
restoring environmental quality.

5. The creation and management of PNN fulfills broad
perspectives of a
“green economy”
including
• low carbon emissions
• increasing biodiversity
• local sustainable development

6. Why?

7. … because it is indeed green
- Creation of jobs on activities with positive
environmental impact or impact compensation
Such as
Nature conservancy programs and projects

8. POCTEP project
The project main aim is the conservation of the Iberian Lynx
and specifically the development of transboudary actions
that include formation, methodologies development,
divulgation, habitat management, etc.
www. iberlinx.com

11. … and next?
LIFE Iberlince approved
Aims to implement actions on
Portugal (including PNN) and
Spain on adequate lynx territory

12. … because it is local
• local people
• local knowledge
• local development

13. Detection of plants,
animals, tracks, trails
and signs

14. … because it provides formation
• local people
• local knowledge
• local development
… fulfilling the needs of formation of the
available people for the available tasks

15. Red deer capture for
GPS GSM wireless
telemetry marking

16. Latrine location captured
by PDA with an user-
friendly software using
GPS/GSM technology
developed for the project

17. Fire vigilance formation, then carried out by 4
people from June to October 24-hour a day

18. … because the knowledge is shared with visitors

19. Lodging facilities…
…and available equipment…
to support an ecological and responsible tourism

20. We are looking forward to keep it green
Thank you!