{"id":3835,"date":"2026-10-26T12:07:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T12:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sustainableforall.visitmadeira.com\/environmental-recovery-in-paul-da-serra-reuses-materials-from-pico-da-urze-dam\/"},"modified":"2026-10-26T12:08:59","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T12:08:59","slug":"environmental-recovery-in-paul-da-serra-reuses-materials-from-pico-da-urze-dam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sustainableforall.visitmadeira.com\/en\/environmental-recovery-in-paul-da-serra-reuses-materials-from-pico-da-urze-dam\/","title":{"rendered":"Environmental recovery in Paul da Serra reuses materials from Pico da Urze Dam"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Regional Government of Madeira carried out an environmental recovery project in Paul da Serra, covering more than 36 hectares, through the reuse of materials from the excavations of the Pico da Urze Dam and Reservoir.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The initiative aims to restore degraded soils, fight erosion, improve the landscape, and promote biodiversity by applying circular economy principles to reuse materials that might otherwise be wasted.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As part of the project, around 23,000 endemic plants from eight different species, provided by the Institute of Forests and Nature Conservation (IFCN), have been planted. Invasive species removal was also part of the project in order to encourage the regeneration of natural vegetation.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Find out more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.madeira.gov.pt\/Governo-Regional-Madeira\/ctl\/Read\/mid\/4829\/InformacaoId\/255487\/UnidadeOrganicaId\/29\/CatalogoId\/0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Regional Government of Madeira carried out an environmental recovery project in Paul da Serra, covering more than 36 hectares, through the reuse of materials from the excavations of the Pico da Urze Dam and Reservoir. The initiative aims to restore degraded soils, fight erosion, improve the landscape, and promote biodiversity by applying circular economy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3833,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,112],"tags":[452,516,517,518],"class_list":["post-3835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-environmental-area","tag-ifcn","tag-paul-da-serra","tag-barragem","tag-pico-da-urze"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sustainableforall.visitmadeira.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sustainableforall.visitmadeira.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sustainableforall.visitmadeira.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sustainableforall.visitmadeira.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sustainableforall.visitmadeira.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3835"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sustainableforall.visitmadeira.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3836,"href":"https:\/\/sustainableforall.visitmadeira.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3835\/revisions\/3836"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sustainableforall.visitmadeira.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sustainableforall.visitmadeira.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sustainableforall.visitmadeira.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sustainableforall.visitmadeira.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}