# Simbiosi Fluvial
## Organization Overview
- **Alliance of organizations** focused on river restoration and watershed regeneration
- **Focus area**: Fluvià River and its watershed community
- **Contact**:
[email protected] | +34 676 66 99 72
- **Website**: https://simbiosifluvial.org/
## Mission
Simbiosi Fluvial is dedicated to the renaturalization, custody, and regeneration of the Fluvià River. The alliance believes in the potential of the Fluvià as "the river with the most capacity to be regenerated and restored in Europe" through:
- Biodiversity recovery
- Ecosystem data collection
- Citizen science initiatives
- Educational and awareness programs
- River narrative reimagining
- Bioregional adaptive governance
## Bioregional Significance
The project exemplifies bioregional principles in Catalonia by:
1. **Watershed-based approach**: Focusing on the Fluvià River as a complete ecological and community system
2. **Community stewardship**: Practicing land and water custody similar to the Xarxa per la Conservació de la Natura (XCN)
3. **Unique ecological value**: Working with one of the few Catalan rivers without major dams or large settlements along its middle and lower course
4. **Natura 2000 protection**: Operating within the European conservation framework
5. **Citizen participation**: Engaging local communities in river monitoring and restoration
6. **Governance innovation**: Implementing adaptive governance with a bioregional perspective
## Notable Features
- Combines scientific research with community engagement
- Focuses on reversible ecological impacts
- Creates new relationships between people and the river through "feeling, observing, and being river"
- Part of Catalonia's growing movement for commons-based natural resource management
[Sources: https://simbiosifluvial.org/ and Bioregionalisme a Catalunya documentation]