By choosing Espaço Talassa, you are choosing to limit your ecological footprint. Espaço Talassa plants trees and contributes for the “micro-reserve” project, to partly compensate the ecological deficit and the CO2 emissions related to our whale watching activity, in collaboration with association “Quercus”. For each customer approximately €0,50 cent will be donated, with the purpose to plant “Cabeço Santo” (GPS position: 40º31’52″N 8º20’36″W- Google Maps) in the mountain range of Caramulo, victim of a terrible forest fire in 2005. Soon the indigenous vegetation will substitute eucalyptus, acacias and other infestants . You may find more information about Quercus and about projects “criar bosques” (creating woods) and “micro reservas biologicas” (biological micro reserves) in Quercus’ page.
We propose you to join directly our effort and to partly compensate the CO2 emission (see www.climatefriendly.com) related to the air transport you took to visit the Azores. To compensate carbon and other greenhouse effect gases is fine, but to produce less is even better. Above all, it’s a question of fighting for the good sense. The tourist of tomorrow will not have the choice: he will go on holidays less often, he will move less and less further, he will have to use a means of transportation less pollutant than the plane and his stays may undoubtedly
