2008-05-12 » Under the Portuguese law, the National Agricultural Reserve (RAN - Reserva Agrícola Nacional) is intended to preserve and protect the most productive soils, which are defined as RAN soils, and to ensure that they are used to develop portuguese agriculture and to guarantee a correct landscape management. (Decreto-Lei 196/89, June [...]
2008-03-27 »
Pictures taken during the floods of January 1996, nearby Coruche (Tagus Valley).
Our Minister of Environment thinks it's quite fine to built major complexes on the Tagus flood plane - read more, about Castanheira do Ribatejo...
Our Minister of Environment even thinks that the problem about yesterday's floods is the lack of [...]
2008-02-20 » A very small town (vila) in the "By-the-Tagus-land" (Ribatejo), on the right edge of the Tagus River, a few kilometers North to the town of Vila Franca de Xira.
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When the Tagus is in flood, this land is submerged - several people have to use boats to go inside and [...]
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