12-years experience in Environmental Consultancy (4- years in River Restoration/Dam removal) - I work as freelance consultant for several NGOs and other Institutions, national and international, helping them getting funding and spearheading River Restoration projects. Some examples:

• From May 2025, I work as consultant for Rewilding Portugal (RP) and Associação para o Estudo e a Proteção do Gado Asinino (AEPGA)

- Preparing a River Restoration Project Proposal for the Great Côa Valley for RP;
- Submitted an international LIFE Project Proposal for the Conservation of the Iberian Desman for AEPGA, in collaboration with Palombar, Instituto Politécnico de Bragança, BIOPOLIS-CIBIO, ICNF, APA, and other foreign institutions (e.g., WWF Spain, Biosfera, several Hydrographic Confederetations, MITECO, Oviedo University).

• From July 2021 to October 2024, I've worked as Freshwater and Dam Removal consultant at WWF Portugal (former ANP|WWF):

- Leading the program on the Removal of Obsolete Fluvial Barriers, within the European Initiative Living European Rivers, which led to the removal of the Galaxes weir, the first removal made by an NGO in Portugal (pictures below).

- Securing the funding of 7 DR projects led by ANP|WWF (all funded by the Open Rivers Programme ORP).

- Co-hosting the VIIth edition of the Dam Removal Europe International Seminar (pictures below).

- Bringing creative contents for Environmental Education and Advocacy for Healthy Rivers (see Outreach, EA & Teaching).

• In July 2022, I was hired as consultant by Rewilding Apennines to prepare a Project Proposal (EoI) for the removal of obsolete river barriers in Central Italy (then funded by the Open Rivers Programme), and in July 2024 I was hired as consultant by AEPGA to prepare a Project Proposal (EoI) for the removal of obsolete river barriers in the Angueira River (Northeastern Portugal).
  
  Therefore, I've contributed to the funding of 9 river restoration projects by the ORP.
  
  

• In summer 2024 and 2025, I've been hired by the University of Trás-os-Montes (UTAD) for Iberian Desman sampling & live-trapping in the Tâmega River Basin (Portugal), to evaluate the success of a translocation program.

• I've been consulting for the Wildlife Conservation Trust to train local researchers on otter ecology, trapping and tagging, for a project aimed at investigating the ecology and biogeography of a population of Eurasian otters recently discovered in Central India.

• Likewise, I was hired as consultant by the Malaysian Nature Society (Malaysia) to train local researchers on otter trapping and tagging.

• I've also worked as Data Analyst to perform Simulations of Elk Data for Prof Adam Ford of British Columbia University.

• My expertise as carnivore researcher was early recognized, e.g., by the Instituto da Conservação da Natureza e das Florestas (ICNF), which firstly came to Évora to learn about the trap-alarms I was using for otter trapping and then made me scientific supervisor of a project aiming to release orphaned otter cubs into the wild involving ICNF, Zoomarine and Évora University. Later, I've provided consultancy for a similar project in Italy, which was also aiming at releasing an orphaned otter cub into the wild and monitor it using GPS-telemetry.