Muga Valley

Creating a living system for a regenerative society.

At the Pioneers of Our Time Foundation, we are building more than ideas, we are creating a living system for a regenerative society. Rooted in the Muga Valley in the Eastern Pyrenees, our work spans 100,000 hectares of diverse and vibrant territory.

This is not a concept. It is a real, evolving demonstration, where land, people, and purpose come together to shape solutions for the future. What we develop here is designed to go beyond our valley, offering models that can be replicated across thousands of similar regions throughout Europe.

Our approach is holistic and systemic. We collaborate deeply with local ecosystems, natural, social, and economic, to unlock meaningful, lasting change. By connecting knowledge, innovation, and community, we activate the full potential of the bioregion.

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Bio Region

Balearic Sea & West Mediterranean Mixed Forests (PA20)

Threats

Water is the foundation of strong local communities soil fertility, fire safety, jobs and livelihoods. Mediterranean watersheds are among Europe’s most beautiful, and most vulnerable. Years of rural abandonment, biodiversity loss, and climate-driven droughts have left its forests fragile and prone to devastating wildfires and dry rivers.

Method

A Source-to-Sea approach recognises watersheds as shared life-support systems, connecting land, people, and markets. The role of the foundation is to catalyze the transformation. We unite science, finance, public and private stakeholders and community stewardship to restore watersheds, strengthen rural economies, and inspire a new culture of care for the land.

Landscape

The Mediterranean watersheds play a critical role in stabilising Europe’s climate, water, and food systems. When these landscapes degrade, the impacts reach far beyond the region, driving water scarcity, wildfires, extreme weather, and food insecurity across the continent. Healthy forests and soils function as living infrastructure. They store water, cool landscapes, reduce fire risk, and stabilise river flows, supporting agriculture, communities, and coastal economies downstream.

Community

The Muga Watershed bioregion is the working area of the Pioneers of our Time Foundation, the Muga Valley our home and laboratory, and the Muga Basin our community of 68 municipalities with whom we collaborate.

Fun Fact

The Muga Watershed is part of a bigger system that we call the Bioregional Economy consisting of three other watersheds being The Fluvia, The Ter, and the Tordera. Together, they form the main source to sea water system for the Costa Brava.