1,250 trees planted in Pedra Fina

Around a hundred people came together last Saturday morning to plant 1,250 trees in Guimarães.

The initiative, led by Win Win Textiles, with the support of the Landscape Laboratory and the Municipality of Guimarães, was in line with the mission of ‘Guimarães Mais Floresta’ (Guimarães More Forest), the aim of which is to reforest various areas of the municipality, contributing to the promotion and protection of biodiversity and the native forest, as well as promoting the improvement of the municipality’s green areas.
The action involved 36 other organisations, including companies, associations and clubs, including Vitória SC ambassadors and athletes, who donated the trees that were planted at Pedra Fina, in S. Torcato.

Before leaving for the planting site, the participants met at the Landscape Laboratory to present the project, a session attended by Sofia Ferreira, Guimarães City Council’s Councillor for the Environment and Climate Action, Carlos Ribeiro, executive director of the Landscape Laboratory, Dalila Sepúlveda, director of the municipality’s Environment and Sustainability department, and representatives of Win Win Textiles, the organisation responsible for the planting.

During the event, the importance of this action within the scope of Guimarães Mais Floresta was emphasised, with the aim of increasing the number of native trees in the municipality, distributed across different areas. The project’s role in raising public awareness of native forests and the importance of their preservation was also emphasised, with a focus on thematic areas such as nature, biodiversity, green spaces, air quality, noise, climate change, landscape and agroforestry techniques, as well as areas of civic rights to protect and create a more diverse, healthy and harmonious natural environment.

Under the motto ‘Together, we conserve biodiversity’, the initiative fits in with the overall sustainability strategy of the municipality, which was recently elected European Green Capital 2026. In this regard, it should be noted that Guimarães stood out in seven environmental indicators (air quality; noise; green areas, biodiversity and land use; water; waste and circular economy; climate change – mitigation; climate change – adaptation), the result of more than a decade of work towards climate neutrality – a goal that Guimarães wants to achieve by 2030.