The exhibition is part of the demonstration interventions contemplated within the project “Creation of a sustainable rural development model for the Alto Najerilla area and evaluation of its potential to access the declaration of Biosphere Reserve”, which has been managed by the Colectivo 7 Villas del Alto Najerilla between 2009 and 2011, with the support of the Biodiversity Foundation, and which has recently concluded.

Another face of the exhibition is provided by more recent photographs, taken in the autumn-winter season of 2010, a period in which the Mansilla reservoir descends and the ruins of the old village are fully visible, many of whose inhabitants have given interviews that are part of the documentary and testimonial material that complement this exhibition.

In general terms, the project for the creation of a sustainable rural development model for the Alto Najerilla area and evaluation of its potential to access the declaration of Biosphere Reserve aims to revitalize a territory of high environmental and cultural value, through the definition of a strategy that allows structuring the bases to achieve sustainable development.

To this end, the entity has based its action on two key elements: the work aimed at achieving the declaration of Biosphere Reserve as a tool for the management, protection and development of the territory, and the involvement of the population and local agents in process, from their double condition as heirs and transmitters of a heritage legacy (natural and cultural) that it currently constitutes and must continue to be in the future. the main asset of the territory.

This project is being developed in the territories of the municipalities of Brieva de Cameros, Viniegra de Abajo, Ventrosa, Mansilla, Villavelayo, Canales de la Sierra and Neila in the Autonomous Communities of Castilla y León and La Rioja, a large area with high value of its natural spaces, with varied forest habitats, where representative species of the Iberian fauna live. such as the short-toed eagle, the golden eagle, the grey partridge, the hen harrier and the European honey buzzard.

NOTE: The exhibition will be on display in the exhibition hall of the City Council of Logroño (La Rioja) until July 3 (Avenida de la Paz, Nº 11 bajo). On weekdays it will be open from 6 pm to 9 pm, and on holidays, from 12 pm to 2 pm and from 6 pm to 9 pm.