International workcamp of Gaià

This work camp will consist of maintaining, restoring and conserving the environment of the river "Gaia".
Specifically, the volunteers will carry out different tasks;

1. Improvement of forest habitats.
2. Improvement of El Catllar lock.
3. Elimination of invasive exotic species.
4. Monitoring of wildlife interest groups.

The different technical tasks that volunteers will carry on will be:

• Improvement of forest and river habitats, focusing mainly on the "El Catllar" lock and its natural environment: participants will support various tasks such as the eradication of allochthonous plants, vegetation of riverbanks and other areas, conditioning of areas of interest, irrigation in summer, etc.
• Biodiversity monitoring: whenever possible, participants will monitor certain groups of fauna of scientific interest, such as turtles, macroinvertebrates, butterflies, birds and mammals.

The accommodation will be in the local school "l'Agulla del Catllar".
The place will offer everything to the volunteers like bathrooms, dining room and space where they can sleep.

El Catllar is a municipality in the county of Tarragonès in Catalonia, Spain.
The town of El Catllar has an old town centre crowned by the Castell del Catllar which sits on the remains of a fortified settlement from the Iron Age (7th-5th centuries BC) on a hill overlooking one of the meanders of the river Gaià. Although written documentation places its beginnings in the 11th century, when the river was the border between the Catalan counties and the kingdom of Al-Andalus, archaeological excavations indicate that the origins of the fortification date back to the Muslim period or even earlier.
Fourteen km towards the coast is one of the last forests stretching along the sea in Catalonia, part of which is a small nature reserve (under the Tamarit-Punta de la Móra Special Plan for Environmental and Landscape Protection).
Also on the coast, it is home to the remains of the Roman Villa of Els Munts, which is part of a larger UNESCO World Heritage Site.

During the afternoons, volunteers will participate in complementary and leisure time activities: workshops, fauna observation, excursions, debates and other activities that will be prepared between all the volunteers.
There will be the option to organize extra activities with extra cost depending on what the volunteers want to do.
For example, an excursion to Port Aventura World Park.