One of the main objectives of the festival is to encourage and promote research and conservation projects. That’s the reason why the profit obtained from the sale of the tickets is intended to this sort of projects. Over the editions, we have already raised the total amount of 23.000 euros! Therefore, visitors are relevant to all these projects get funded. We count on you to help nature!
Conservation Project 2023
– Documentary “URPA”, a fresh sip to save the Montagu’s harrier –
In Catalonia, for more than twenty years, the administration has ensured the conservation of the Montagu’s harrier (Circus pygargus). It is an endangered migratory bird of prey, typical of open landscapes and mostly breeds in cereal fields. The advance of the mowing period due to the use of new crop varieties means that many nests can be carved by harvesters. This is why in Catalonia it is compulsory to leave a quarter of cereal field hectare without mowing, in exchange for the peasants receiving compensation for their harvest loss.
In 2022, a group of local naturalists from the Limonium Natura association had the initiative to buy ripe barley from two fields where the Montagu’s harrier had nested, and make a special, unique beer to give to the farmers involved. With the aim of visualizing the species problems and with the idea, in the long run, of helping to finance measures for the protection of the Montagu’s harrier and its habitat, it was born Urpa, the nests saver beer.
Now, with the intention of visualizing the peasants commitment and the work carried out by the naturalists to conserve the species,the proposal to make a documentary about the origins and the most authentic history of this project arises. This way, with the hook of the harrier and Urpa it will be possible to show the alarming state of conservation of this species, as well as explain the challenge of birds conservation and the Ponent drylands biodiversity.
Help us to save the Montagu’s harrier! Remember that buying your festival ticket will help us to make it possible!
Conservation projects of previous editions
2022
Ecological recovery of Ullals de Panxa
2021
Promoting birds fans at the Daasanach tribe in Africa, by giving them the tools they need
2019
Conservation status of the Egyptian Vulture (Neophron percnopterus) in Central and Eastern Catalonia
2017 – 18
European Turtle Doves (Streptopelia turtur) monitoring
2016 – 17 – 18
Black wheatear (Oenanthe leucura) monitoring
2016
European Breeding Bird Atlas
2015
New Atlas of Breeding Birds in Catalunya
2014
Sylvia project in l’Alfacada
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