01 / Conservation
The Ocean as Commons
We train coastal women as certified marine scientists — mapping the invasive alga Rugulopteryx okamurae across 60+ km of Portugal's Atlantic coast. Every field session is data. Every data point is protection.
Maré VerdeWestern Atlantic Coast · Portugal
Maré Verde · Western Atlantic Coast, PortugalWater is
Water is
not the destination.
It is where we remember who we are.
Women who have always read these tides. Science that belongs to the community. Tourism that heals what it touches.
The Foundation
02 / Community
Dignity Before Impact
55% of all revenues — growing to 70% by Year 3 — stay in the local community. Our monitors are paid professionals — not volunteers. Gender equity is not a project add-on. It is the architecture of the project.
03 / Blue Mind
Water as Medicine
Our retreats and experiences are evidence-based. Grounded in the neuroscience of Wallace J. Nichols. The ocean is the therapist. We are the guides.
What We BelieveThe science of Blue Mind is already inside us.
The science of Blue Mind is already inside us.
We just forgot to listen.
- The ocean is not a backdrop for wellness retreats. It is an active participant in human healing — neurologically, emotionally, spiritually.
- Conservation and wellbeing are the same work. You cannot heal people in a broken ocean. You cannot protect an ocean that people do not love.
- The women who have always lived with the sea — the coastal mothers, the fisherwomen, the tide-watchers — hold knowledge that no university has yet measured.
- Every visitor who kneels in the water to remove an invasive alga is not a tourist. They are a citizen of the ocean.
- Regenerative means that the act of healing creates more healing. Tourism that restores. Revenue that stays. Science that belongs to the community.
The Experiences
Where paying for an experience means doing the work of conservation.
Signature · Year-round
Available NowScientist for a Day
Join our coastal women monitors on an active field session. Document, remove invasive species, return to shore with your hands in the science and your nervous system recalibrated. No experience needed. Ocean empathy welcome.
Read the science: 2022 study · 2024 study
From €90 / person
Reserve your spot →Intertidal · Families & Schools · Year-round
Available NowRock Pooling
A low-tide walk along the rocky shore with a trained coastal monitor. No swimming, no wetsuit — just hands, eyes, and the extraordinary world that appears when the ocean pulls back. Identify native and invasive species. Contribute to real scientific data. Suitable for all ages and abilities.
From €50 / person
Reserve your spot →
Day Experience
Available NowDay of Retreat & Ocean Meditation
A full day at the Atlantic edge. Morning ocean meditation. Coastal restoration activity. Shared local lunch. Optional snorkelling. A single day that resets the whole year.
From €100 / person
Reserve your spot →Summer 2026The first outings are happening now.
The first outings are happening now.
Be part of it from the beginning.
We are launching our first pilot outings in Summer 2026. A small group of people will be the first to become citizens of this ocean. Leave your email and we will reach you before anyone else.
The Impact
60+ km
of Atlantic coastline monitored
12 women
trained and paid as marine scientists
55%
of revenue stays in the local community — growing to 70%
5× / year
monitoring surveys per season
Every visitor leaves having contributed to real scientific data. That is not just tourism. That is citizen science.
Already in the Water
A consortium built on real commitment — and a community already in motion.
Maré Verde is not waiting to begin. We are already in the water — alongside fishing families and coastal women, running field outings to document invasive species and build ocean literacy from the ground up. Community engagement is not a future milestone. It is happening now.
Our formal consortium brings together municipal authorities and a research university committed to this coastline.
After Matisse, La Danse (1910) — reinterpreted in blue
Mafra Municipality
ESTM / MARE — Instituto Politécnico de Leiria·Scientific Partner
Peniche Municipality
Caldas da Rainha Municipality
For Organisations & Investors
Get in touch → leonor@mareverde.com.pt
This is the right moment to become part of it.
Maré Verde is being built at the intersection of marine conservation, regenerative tourism, and community equity on Portugal's Atlantic coast. We are building partnerships with organisations that share our mission.
If you are an investor, foundation, impact fund, accommodation partner, or organisation working at the intersection of ocean health and social equity — we want to talk.
"We are not bringing Blue Mind to Portugal. Blue Mind was always here — in the tidal pools of every child who grew up on this coast, in the hands of the women who mended nets, in the silence of a dawn sail on the Atlantic.
We are simply giving it a name, a structure, and a home."
Leonor Salgueiro · Founder, Maré Verde
Come to the water.
Maré Verde is a movement still being built — and that is precisely the right moment to become part of it. The Western Atlantic coast of Portugal is waiting. So are we.