Line of action:

Terrestrial ecosystems

Status:

Finalizado

Execution date:

2019

Total budget:

36.360 €

Amount of aid from the Biodiversity Foundation:

€15,015.50

Proyecto Ríos is an initiative of Associació Hàbitats that was born with the aim of involving society in the conservation of river ecosystems.
To do this, it uses tools such as volunteering, education and participation.
It is the largest environmental volunteering initiative in Catalonia and, since 1997, it has been mobilising thousands of volunteers to analyse and guard a stretch of river.
Volunteering is organised into groups that act at different points of the Catalan hydrographic network whose mission is to analyse and monitor the assigned stretch of river.
With the set of data obtained, the RiusCat Report is prepared, a unique document that summarises the ecological status of the hydrographic network of Catalonia and recognises the civic work of volunteers.
This document is of great value, on the one hand, due to the importance of the data collected and, on the other, due to the participation of an average of 3,200 volunteers per year, in 175 inspection points in Catalonia and some 88 km of river guarded.

The general objective of the project is to involve citizens in the knowledge, monitoring and conservation of river ecosystems through education and volunteering.

• Volunteer management.
  Attention, information and accompaniment of volunteers and those interested in the project.
• Training and training activities for volunteers in the inspection of a river section.
• Analysis of river sections, following an established methodology.
• Actions for the conservation and improvement of river spaces. It includes actions for the restoration, conditioning and general improvement of a river space carried out by volunteer groups.
• Preparation of the RiusCat report, which is prepared each year with the set of data collected by the different groups of volunteers during their respective inspections and offers an overview of the state of conservation of river courses in Catalonia.
• Maintenance and updating of tools and didactic and communicative materials, online and offline.

• Proyecto Ríos is the largest environmental volunteering initiative in Catalonia.
  Since 1997, and uninterruptedly, it has mobilized thousands of volunteers whose mission is to analyze and guard a stretch of river.
  With the set of data obtained, the RiusCat Report is prepared, a unique document that summarises the ecological status of the Catalan hydrographic network and recognises the civic work of volunteers.
• The interest in the project has resulted in the participation of 147 volunteers, organised into 215 volunteer groups (55 new groups compared to the previous year) from different social profiles.
  The volunteers’ action has made it possible to analyse 232 river sections of the different internal and community river basins of Catalonia.
• During this year, 5 training sessions on the inspection methodology have been held, in which 67 people have participated, as well as another 2 volunteer actions based on waste removal that have added up to a total of 215 people.