Slamming the latest Institute of Nature and Forestry report on the Lagoa wetland as “inadequate and misleading,” campaigner Anabela Blofeld, from the Alagoas Brancas Group, questions the use of Portugal’s organisations that are set up to support and protect nature and the Algarve’s varied environment, while in reality they condone and support councils, greedy for rates income – and supermarket chains who view environmental impact assessments as a mild inconvenience.

The wetland that gave Lagoa its name is to be filled-in to make way for yet another supermarket in this town that has become the region’s supermarket capital, each vying with its neighbour for business from a council population that does not justify the investment.

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