Essential Sites
Zoo
aquariovgama.marinha.pt The Aquário Vasco da Gama offers an exhibition of living that gives a dynamic and a color image of the underworld, displaying a wide variety of animals in tanks and aquariums where the natural environments of the species have been recreated. This concern stems from the increasing importance given to environmental education, with a view to alerting visitors to the Protection and Conservation of Nature.
www.badoca.com The Adventure in Nature is one of the main attractions of Badoca Safari Park in a natural park in the Alentejo with an area of 90 hm2. Here you can spend a full day in the middle of nature and know the beauty animal. In addition to a safari where afforded direct contact with wild animals, the park offers several concerts and educational and recreational activities, as the Cangurus park, the Lake of the Flamingos and Ibis, the Park of Coatis, the Garden of Exotic Birds and a Playground for Kids.
Europaradise (Montemor-o-Velho)
http://www.europaradise-park.com In Europaradise you can find a large number of exotic and wild animals in spaces suitable for their needs to be able to evolve into an area as close as possible to their natural surroundings. In this park you can find the beauty of wild animals mixed with the beauty of protected natur, which is almost all species of forest trees of the Iberian Peninsula.
www.zoo.pt/opening.aspx The biggest zoo in Portugal, whose main mission is: Develop and promote a park, zoo and botanical both as a centre for conservation, breeding and reintroduction of species threatened with extinction, through scientific research and environmental programs for enrichment.
www.zoodamaia.pt/ It is one of the most visited parks in Portugal and has as main objectives directly sensitize the society in general to issues like the environment, preservation and protection of species, procreation of animals, cooperation with authorities and institutions dealing in animal protection.
www.monteselvagem.pt Monte Selvagem is a natural park developed in a typical forest (montado) in Alentejo, holm oak and cork oak, with various species of plants, wild and domestic animals. In this thematic park you can find some equipment devoted to leisure and recreation. You can learn how fun it is interacting with nature and wild animals.
www.zoolagos.com The zoological park of Lagos has a good design of their spaces, which took into account all needs and all details of individual species.
www.zoomarine.pt The main activity of Zoomarine located in Albufeira - Algarve is the operation of theme parks based on marine life with a strong component of entertainment, recreation and environmental education.
