Pictures taken during the floods of January 1996, nearby Coruche (Tagus Valley). The trees are Cork Oaks.

Our Minister of Environment thinks it's quite fine to built major complexes on the Tagus flood plane - read more, about Castanheira do Ribatejo...

Our Minister of Environment even thinks that the problem about yesterday's floods is the lack of cleaning... according to different sources.

On this subject, Quercus, the National Nature Conservation Association (Associação Nacional de Conservação da Natureza) points out the wrong territory policies.

The blog Um Jardim no Deserto (A Garden in the Desert) says: The citizens' tragedy, the governors' unresponsiveness!

[Originally posted on Feb 19th, 2008]

Category: MOUNTS AND VALLEYS