November 23rd sees the Iberian Peninsula celebrating Indigenous Forest Day. This event serves as a complement to World Forest Day – 21st March – and not appropriate to the planting of indigenous species as tree planting in the Portuguese spring returns only low rates of success due to the precipitation and heat levels.

At the Ponte de Sor School, the students to did harvesting acorn, to planted Quercus Suber, commonly called the cork oak and Arbutus Unedo (strawberry tree) and to do inoculate mushroom spores."