The Interpretation Center ‘Los Sotos de Alfaro y sus Cigüeñas’ hosts this summer the photographic exhibition ‘When the river recovers its space’, an exhibition linked to the LIFE Ebro Resilience P1 Project, which can be visited free of charge from Wednesday to Sunday and holidays, from 9 to 14 hours, until September 21.
The exhibition presents new approaches to flood risk reduction measures in the middle stretch of the Ebro, highlighting new intervention typologies, the use of nature-based solutions and also the real and effective participation of the riparian population. The exhibition focuses on the creation of new wetlands, not only as key spaces for the recovery of ecosystems, but also as natural infrastructure to mitigate the effects of floods.
Through 25 snapshots provided by the Ebro Hydrographic Confederation, three information panels and an audiovisual viewing point, visitors can visually tour the intervention areas and understand, through photographs, what it really means to adapt to the river. All this is articulated around five thematic areas linked to the actions of the LIFE Ebro Resilience P1 Project:
- Meanders that become part of the river again.
- Remaining a riparian
- Types of intervention
- Restoring ecosystems and fighting against floods
- Real and effective participation
This project is a pioneering initiative selected by the European Commission in the LIFE 2020 call to address floods in the middle stretch of the Ebro. Its main objective is to achieve the coexistence between a river in a good state of conservation and populations and economic activities protected against the damage of the inevitable floods. A unique opportunity to discover how nature offers sustainable and effective solutions to floods, and to reflect on how to adapt to the river environment.
LIFE Project
The LIFE Ebro Resilience P1 Project (LIFE20 ENV/ES/00327), approved by the European Commission in the LIFE 2020 call, covers three autonomous communities (La Rioja, Navarra and Aragón), has a duration of 6 years and a total budget of 13,310,350 €, with 55% European funding.
This project is also an example of institutional coordination and cooperation in the intervention section, its partners being the Ministry for Ecological Transition and Demographic Challenge (MITECO), through its companies TRAGSA and TRAGSATEC; the Ebro Hydrographic Confederation; the Government of La Rioja; the Government of Navarra, through Gestión Ambiental de Navarra, S.A. (GAN-NIK); the Government of Aragón and the Aragonese Water Institute.