About us

WILDLIFE PORTUGAL is a small travel agency and tourism operator company based in the central interior of Portugal, specialising in the promotion and implementation of nature tourism activities.

With in-depth knowledge of Portugal’s natural values, we seek to publicise and promote this wealth through nature tourism activities, arousing our clients’ curiosity about these aspects and making them aware of the importance of conserving this heritage. Our specific nature observation, photography and interpretation activities are often combined with the walking routes we take, making them an enriching experience from a physical, psychological and cognitive point of view.

Operating in Portugal, we organise specific tours for nature observation and interpretation (birds and mammals, insects, botany, reptiles and amphibians, geology, etc.).

We are trained and properly accredited to organise visits to the rewilding areas of the Greater Côa Valley.

We also organise a number of wildlife photography tours. In this sense, through a collaborative partnership with Rewilding Portugal, we are managing a series of wildlife photographic hides in the rewilding areas of the Greater Côa Valley.

In addition to the natural heritage, we try to highlight the cultural, historical and gastronomic values that differentiate the territories where we operate.

WILDLIFE PORTUGAL is a member of the Wild Côa Network and is helping to make the Greater Côa Valley a more natural and wilder place, valuing and promoting the coexistence of natural values with local communities and traditional practices.

WILDLIFE PORTUGAL has the support and backing of the Rewilding Europe Foundation, a Europe-wide initiative whose mission is to promote the creation of more spaces for wildlife and to develop nature tourism in these areas.

Licensed by Turismo de Portugal, with RNAVT 12577 and RNAAT 369/2025 registrations, WILDLIFE PORTUGAL also has a Nature Tourism certificate and is a NATURAL.PT member, as we have chosen the National Network of Protected Areas for most of our activities, as it is in these natural spaces that we find the most significant values of our natural heritage.

Classified areas where we operate:

Alvão Nature Park

Serra da Estrela Nature Park

Serras de Aire e Candeeiros Nature Park

Douro Internacional Nature Park

Tejo internacional Nature Park

Serra da Malcata Nature Reserve

Berlengas Nature Reserve

Serra do Açor Protected Landscape

The team

Fernando Romão

Fernando Romão is an experienced nature guide and interpreter who has been working in this field for around 30 years. He is also a professional photographer.

He was born in Lisbon but has roots in a village in the centre of Portugal, where he spent part of his childhood and where contact with the natural environment gave him his the first experiences of observing nature.

His life has always been linked to nature conservation, natural history and ecotourism, and he was an activist in an environmental NGO, of which he was even a regional leader. His knowledge of the area has also allowed him to be involved in designing tourist routes and trails.

He has led guided tours and excursions to wild areas in Portugal and Spain. Over the years he has undertaken specific training in the areas of nature tourism and adventure sports, as well as nature interpretation.

He has been leading Naturetrek excursions for several years and, although he specialises in birdwatching, he is a naturalist with knowledge that extends to botany, insects (dragonflies and butterflies), reptiles, amphibians and wild mammals, geology and geomorphology.

Passionate about biodiversity, he has endeavoured to get to know and photograph the species of Portugal’s biological heritage. This is one of the ways he has found to promote knowledge and conservation of biodiversity through photography. He keeps a record of his observations on iNaturalist.

Fernando Romão is the face of WILDLIFE PORTUGAL.

My passion is to explore nature and have the opportunity to observe and discover its secrets, and then share them through photography or the tours I guide.