Nature & Ecology
The Laurisilva, endemic species and the living laboratory of the Atlantic.
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Nature & Ecology
The Laurisilva
Madeira's laurisilva is the largest surviving area of laurel forest on Earth — a relic of the subtropical woodland that once covered southern Europe, protected as a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1999.
Nature & EcologyEndemic Wildlife & Flora
Isolation has made Madeira an evolutionary hothouse — home to the Trocaz pigeon, Zino's petrel, the Madeiran wall lizard, the monk seal and hundreds of endemic plants and invertebrates.
Nature & EcologyGardens of Madeira
A mild climate and a long history of plant-hunting have made Madeira one of the world's great garden islands, from Funchal's Botanical Garden to the tiled fantasy of Monte Palace.