Sorraia Mustang Project

02/05/2026

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Conservation does not always happen in silence.
Here, in the Greater Côa Valley, the sound of the Sorraia hooves tells a story of coexistence.
This primitive horse breed plays a key role in natural landscape management, promoting more diverse and resilient habitats.
Each animal is part of a fragile balance, between what once was, what is, and what can still be.

Sometimes, conservation means letting nature do the work.

11/13/2025

Comportamentos naturais e sempre muito especiais de captar em imagem da manada de cavalos Sorraia em regime semisselvagem na área rewilding do Ermo das Águia...

08/26/2025

The Sorraia horse brigade roams the rewilding areas of the Greater Côa Valley, managing the fine vegetation and reducing shrub density, thereby helping to reduce the intensity and scale of forest fires. They share the landscape with a handful of roe deer. There is a lack of many more herbivores in this vast abandoned territory, but in Portugal, everything is very complicated to achieve...

08/02/2025

read about Sorraias in Portugal

São quase sombras na paisagem, discretos, ágeis, antigos. Os cavalos Sorraia carregam no corpo a memória da Península Ibérica e no seu passo leve a força da regeneração.

Sabias que são aliados essenciais na renaturalização? Moldam a vegetação, reduzem o risco de incêndio e ajudam a devolver equilíbrio aos ecossistemas.