📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Emys Foundation is a non-profit organisation dedicated to the conservation of nature,
specially wetlands and also the terrapin Emys orbicularis, that give the name to the
Foundation. Born in 2003, Emys foundation is located close to Riudarenes in a country
farm called Can Moragues.
💼 What the programme involves
The general objective of the workcamp is to show the environmental reality of a
territory and how to intervene in it by:
1. Contributing to the improvement and conservation of the Natural Area of Sils
wetlands.
2. Knowing the biodiversity and the characteristic habitats of these humid zones
3. Knowing the landstewarship, the actors in the territory that participate and
good practices.
4. Transmitting values of cooperation and respect towards the environment and its
inhabitants
5. Offering a space for exchange and discovery of the different realities of the
participants, mainly in environmental issues and for the conservation and management
of natural spaces.
6. Encouraging responsible consumption in every way. On the one hand, as an
important measure for our environment; on the other hand, in the use of new
technologies and other aspects related to the care of oneself and the community
8. Promoting participants to become diffusers
9. Showing Catalan culture through vividness and networking
🏠 Accommodation on site
The type of accommodation is in format camping. The
rest area will be located about 500 meters from the house, between a meadow and a
forest. This space, due to its extension, will allow us to create differentiated areas and
areas of shade and more sun depending on the time of day. In this space there will be
tends of maximum five people, a tend for material and a toilet area. Food as much as possible of the organic, local and products in custody.
We consume practically no fish and little meat, meaning no meat is eaten daily. The
menu is balanced so that it provides all the necessary nutrients with the environment in
mind. No problem if we are vegetarian, vegan and / or with allergies and / or
intolerance.
📍 About the location
There will be leisure activities every day, and some days some excursions, here
attached a list of the main activities that will be done:
- Knowledge activities
- Group cohesion dynamics
- Self management activities "DO IT TOGETHER”
- Bats observation
- Table games
- Dynamic on gender
- Excursion to Santa Coloma de Farners with the organizations of the Guild of the
“Ratafia” and “La Bulla” Association
- Excursion to Girona
- Excursion to Farners chapel and castle
- Excursion to Marimurtra Botanic Garden and Blanes town
- Excursion to Argimon
- Human castles group
⚠️ Requirements
Comfortable clothes for the technical work.