Ma Earth Funding: From Seed to Eternal Forest Sanctuary in Faia Brava
1-21 July
Eternal Forest has been chosen from 800 projects worldwide to participate in Ma Earth’s collective funding round for community-led regeneration. We look forward to continuing our work in the beautiful Côa Valley in Portugal – together with our partners Faia Brava (ATN) | Reserva da Faia Brava Fractal | Regenerative Technologies & eccos.channel and people living locally.
We feel this work is so crucial right now – activating the sense of stewardship in the communities around the world, creating a movement of community-led forest sanctuaries.
What if cared by the communities, forests can stand forever – as they get older, creating ever more biodiversity, evolving the complexity of relationships, becoming the nature temples (the original ones!) and the spaces for continuity of our cultural memory?
From July 1–21, we have a short window of opportunity to raise support for our project: From Seed to Eternal Forest Sanctuary in Faia Brava.
So what does Ma Earth funding mean?
1. You make a contribution
Visit our project page on https://maearth.com/eternal-forest/2026 and donate any amount you can.
2. Every contribution matters
Ma Earth’s collective funding model rewards broad community support, which means that many small contributions can help unlock more matching funds for the project.
3. Your donation can be multiplied
Funding reaches the project through three streams:
community donations, matching funds from a philanthropic pool, and bonus funds when all selected projects collectively reach a shared goal.
4. Sharing via social media helps unlock more support
The more people who contribute, even small amounts, the stronger our campaign becomes.
Ma Earth connects land stewards with resources to restore ecosystems, protect watersheds, and care for the living world.
For 21 days, we are inviting our community to gather around this seed.
Support the campaign, share it with friends, and help us grow the first Eternal Forest Sanctuary at Faia Brava
🌿 Spread the word: July 1–21
🌿 https://maearth.com/eternal-forest/2026
🌿 Every small contribution helps unlock more funding!
CONTRIBUTE TO THE CAMPAIGN
From Studio to Seed: Developing Your Creative Practice as a Form of Land Stewardship
For the artists, creators, land stewards, and regenerators
From Studio to Seed: Developing Your Creative Practice as a Form of Land Stewardship. A new 6-months live-sessions course with Land Art Collective – starting 15 July lead by Evgenia Emets, artist and founder of Eternal Forest.
Join here: https://landartcollective.com/seed
It feels deeply aligned with the work many of us are carrying: how creative practice can become a form of listening to land, restoring relationship, working with land as co-creator, and opening new ways of being with the living world.
Across six sessions, we will explore how to move from landscape as backdrop to land as living partner, how to work with complexity and time, collaborate with ecologists, designers, communities and institutions, and how art can become a real form of stewardship rather than only representation.
We will practice art that lasts beyond the artwork itself: through care, distributed ownership, community, and long-term relationship with place
This is for those who feel that art is not separate from ecology, education, community, or regeneration, but can become a doorway into all of them.
LINK TO REGISTER
Eternal Forest in Faia Brava 2025 – ongoing
Seeding Eternal Forest in Faia Brava, 8 November 2025, Coa Valley
On November 8, 2025, Faia Brava — the first officially designated private protected area in Portugal, part of the Natura 2000 network, an Important Bird Area (IBA), and the Côa Valley Archaeological Park (UNESCO) — hosted the inaugural Eternal Forest event.
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The occasion marks both the celebration of Faia Brava’s 25th anniversary and the beginning of a long-term partnership to establish the first Eternal Forest Sanctuary, in Portugal and globally.
We have completed a Crowdfunding campaign to support us in creating a Seed of Eternal Forest in Faia Brava, raising a total Eur 6,750. CROWDFUNDING
If you missed our crowdfunding campaign or still want to contribute, please contribute via our Stripe page.
Portugal hosts the first Eternal Forest sanctuary as a living artwork: Art, ecology, and long-term thinking come together in Faia Brava this November.
What it is
This initiative is the result of a collaboration between the Eternal Forest project, founded by artist Evgenia Emets, and the Faia Brava Association. Together, they will create a living artwork intended to endure — a forest planted through a regenerative artistic design that integrates long-term environmental research, stewardship and promotes an increase in biodiversity.
This event marks the beginning of an ongoing intervention, with artist residencies at Faia Brava, educational activities, and progressive planting over the coming years — offering a living model of regeneration and reverence.
Under the motto “Being a good ancestor is the great work of our time,” Eternal Forest at Faia Brava goes beyond simple tree planting — it’s about redefining how we imagine and inhabit the future.
Protected Area Context
- 1,000 hectares of sustainably managed natural landscapes, with wild cliffs, native forests of cork oaks, holm oaks and Portuguese oaks, as well as olive groves and cereal fields cultivated using traditional agricultural practices
- The reserve is home to colonies of cliff-dwelling birds such as the griffon vulture, Egyptian vulture, golden eagle, Bonelli’s eagle, and black stork
- It hosts emblematic species such as the wildcat and otter, as well as herds of Garrano horses, roe deer, and wild boar that contribute to ecosystem maintenance and natural fire prevention
Symbolic and Cultural Power
In the Côa Valley, where Paleolithic engravings and cave paintings reveal a human artistic relationship with nature dating back over 25,000 years, Eternal Forest translates regenerative art into cultural continuity — “from marks on schist to planting trees as acts of care” — a living dialogue between ancestral past and sustainable future.
More information and partnerships
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https://seed.eternalforest.earth/event
DONATE – Every Contribution Matters
All funds go toward seeding the Eternal Forest organization. Even small contributions help us move forward.
JOIN the Eternal Forest Team
We’re looking for collaborators and ambassadors! If you have experience in structure, outreach, financing, strategy, or communications, or if you want to be part of shaping this movement, reach out via email [email protected] with some info about yourself and your vision of how you’d like to contribute — we are building a new kind of regenerative global organization.