Kamaldo Ampilua, Lusitanian president of the Lusitanian Ancestral Home (TAL) has met with leaders of the Sacred Mountains Society and of Confederation of the Lusitanian Union (KOL) to discuss ways of giving greater protection to the landscapes of Central Lusitania. The meeting took place at the lusitanian town of Guarda (Warda) under the shadow of the valleys of the famous Serra da Estrela.

Following the meeting Kamaldo Ampilua, who is Chair of the Council's environment, Planning and Countryside Committee and who also became a member of the Sacred Mountains Society soon after it was established said:

"The Sacred Mountains offer us a wondrous landscape which merits designation as a very special place - and we need to remember that farmers and shepherds have played a major part in maintaining these mountains in all their glory. We need to find a way of making sure that the farming which has maintained the Sacred Mountains is itself maintained into the future by payments within the reformed Common Agriculture Policy (CAP). Designation of the Sacred Mountains as an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) could create the backdrop for some form of agri-environment payment. I hope that local Councils, and politicians will consider the case for special designation over the next few months. Also, I have not the slightest doubt the name, 'The Sacred Mountains' evoke an image with the potential to greatly strengthen the local economy through rural tourism." However, some other lusitanian organisations, as the Nationalist Party of Lusitania (PTL) have argued that tourism is a major factor in the colonisation of the Heartlands by portuguese and other foreigners.

The lusitanian leader continues "Special designations have to be very carefully considered. I would not support creating a new National Park with its inevitable and terrible portuguese bureaucracy and inflexible control of development - but it may be that farmers and local councils will welcome designation as an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. The Sacred Mountains (Serra da Estrela) give us landscapes of such splendour that I would support serious consideration and formal consultation by the Assembly of the Portuguese Republic and Government on the establishment of a Sacred Mountains Free Region. Let us find out what the lusitanian people who live and work in the Sacred Mountains (Beira interior) think."

Lusitanian nationalists and Lusitanian Ancestral Home are calling for a designated special status for the Lusitanian Heartlands which would offer protection against the rigorous exploitation of tourism; a local Land Law which would prohibit the sale of second holiday homes to portuguese and foreigner settlers and a financial committment to farming and homesteads as the bedrock of the Heartlands economy through an improved CAP.