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Here at the Quinta it’s well known that we’re pretty “pro-nature”, but it’s not just because we have the most wonderful sights of Nature all around us on a regular basis that we’re so happy right now. No, it’s more than that …<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In these days of the “Trash Tag” craze we like to remember that we’ve always done our bit for the environment over the years, raising awareness of conservation issues and living a sustainable life as far as possible. We’re lucky and there’s not so much trash around here so we raise a fair amount of money for charitable causes instead. <\/p>\n\n\n\n For example, last winter we donated to CABS<\/a>, the Committee Against Bird Slaughter, who run proactive campaigns against poachers and the indiscriminate destruction of our avian heritage, and every August we donate at least \u00a3500 to the Birdfair<\/a> to help them with their conservation goals … but this year we’ve hit the jackpot!<\/p>\n\n\n\n The BTO<\/a>, (British Trust for Ornithology), have just been in touch to let us know that the week’s holiday we gave them from “Birding in Portugal<\/a>” as a first prize in their annual raffle has raised over \u00a334,000. <\/p>\n\n\n\n That’s right, over \u00a334,000! <\/p>\n\n\n\n Now you know why we’re over the moon!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Why? Let me tell you … Here at the Quinta it’s well known that we’re pretty “pro-nature”, but it’s not just because we have the most wonderful sights of Nature all around us on a regular basis that we’re so happy right now. No, it’s more than that … In these days of the “Trash […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[160,193,192,196,195,161,194],"class_list":["post-569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-birding-in-portugal","tag-british-trust-for-ornithology","tag-bto-raffle","tag-cabs","tag-charity","tag-paradise-in-portugal","tag-trash-tag"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paradise-in-portugal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paradise-in-portugal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paradise-in-portugal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paradise-in-portugal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paradise-in-portugal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=569"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/paradise-in-portugal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":580,"href":"https:\/\/paradise-in-portugal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569\/revisions\/580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paradise-in-portugal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paradise-in-portugal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paradise-in-portugal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/retreat-in-portugal.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Southern-Brown-Argus-April-19-5320-1024x683.jpg\")
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