Flora In Estrela Geopark

Landscapes   (Students' drawings)

Tomás L.Year 7 - Class C

Sofia A. Year 7 - Class C

Flora and Fauna in the petrified forest of Lesvos 20 million years ago!

Students' drawings

Georgia G.(6th class)

Manolis K. (6th class)

A thistle, by António B. (Year 7 Class C)

Artichoke thistles are used by cheese producers in Serra da Estrela. It is a sustainable procedure to help the coagulation of the curd.

Thistle dried stamens(basket on the left)

The plant:

Pine cone and resin

Pomegranates

The sheep

The Bordaleira breed is raised in this area. The milk produced is of very high quality, therefore it is used to make our famous product: cheese.

In the summer, the sheep need the green meadows. So, the shepherds and their dogs take the sheep up the mountains to the summer pastures.

The mountain dog

Baby birds

Blackbird (Turdus merula)

One week later

Motherhood in Mother Nature

Hoopoe (Upupa epops)

A family of sparrows (passer montanus) -mother and baby birds on the left, father on the right. (This species is dimorphic. It means the female and the male look different.)

Starling (Sturnus vulgaris) on the left; Blackbird (Turdus merula) on the right

Water lizards (Lacerta schreiberi), an endemic species in the Iberian Peninsula, can be found next to the water lines in summer.
These were found in Vale do Rossim.

On the slope of the mountain

Arbutus

Arbutus fruit

Wild Rose

The result of fires in 2017

2020: Resilient Pine treesin the Geopark

(contribution of Elsa Pinheiro)

Fauna in Serra da Estrela

Contributions by our guests Emanuel Castro and Hugo Gomes:

Flora_contributos Emanuel Castro_Hugo Gomes (Associação Geopark Estrela)

Fauna_contributos Emanuel Castro_Hugo Gomes (Associação Geopark Estrela)

Flora in Lesvos Global Geopark