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A Sorraia horse standing in open scrubland.

The foundation site · The Algarve, Portugal

Herdade Alagães

The wild end of Urban to Wild: open land in the Algarve, a herd of Sorraia horses, and the ground every city forest we plant is connected to.

The working herd

The horses are staff, not scenery.

Around 200 Sorraia horses are estimated to remain in the world. A herd of them is coming to Herdade Alagães — currently awaiting transport to the site — to do a job: large herbivores clear the dry brush that feeds fire.

Fire prevention by grazing is the oldest land management there is. The horses eat the fuel before the summer can burn it.

≈200

Sorraia horses worldwide

Widely reported estimate — studbook citation pending

Sorraia horses grazing together in dry grassland.
Sorraia horses · Photo: Whole Wild World
Equus ferus (Sorraia)
Sorraia horse
Role
Fire prevention — grazing dry brush
Status
Herd awaiting transport to site

Recorded on site

Who was here before us.

  • Deer
  • Wild rabbits
  • Otters
  • Vultures
  • Reptiles
  • Wild boar
Lynx pardinus
Iberian lynx
Range
Iberian Peninsula
Open land at Herdade Alagães under a wide sky.
Herdade Alagães, the Algarve, Portugal · Photo: Whole Wild World

Giving · Herdade Alagães

First Guardian

One gift that safeguards half a hectare of the foundation site — and puts your name on one of the horses that will keep it from burning.

£2,000One payment

  • Safeguards5,000 m² at Herdade Alagães
  • IncludesA visit to the site
  • IncludesNaming a Sorraia horse
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