Pangea Trust

The Pangea Trust is a charitable organisation, registered in the United Kingdom and Portugal, that operates the Pangea Elephant Sanctuary in the Alentejo region of southern Portugal. Founded in the United Kingdom in 2017, the trust established an associated Portuguese non-profit in 2022. The sanctuary, on an estate between the municipalities of Alandroal and Vila Viçosa, has been described in Portuguese and international news reports as the first large-scale sanctuary in Europe for elephants ret