Emys Foundation is a non-profit organization dedicated to the conservation of nature, especially wetlands and the terrapin Emys orbicularis, which gives the name to the Foundation. Born in 2003, the Emys Foundation is located close to Riudarenes on a country farm called Can Moragues. Emys orbicularis is the native terrapin of Catalunya, North Africa, and most parts of Europe. In 1987 a group of young people discovered through a talk that in his region there was an endangered terrapin, the Emys orbicularis. They decided to do something to help that species. Those people started doing custody agreements with local territory owners to protect ponds, streams, and lakes. And this is how the Emys Foundation starts. Actually, Emys orbicularis is still endangered because of the destruction of the habitat, exotic species, and water contamination. In the Selva region, we found the best-preserved population in Catalonia, with more than 500 animals. The organization works with a conciliatory view, where the challenge is involving the owners, managers, and users of the territory in the natural heritage values, its sustainable management, and its long-term conservation. All this is done by voluntary work, land stewardship, research, conservation, education, and consciousness-raising. The organization has been groundbreaking in the field of amphibians and reptiles and has been awarded on different occasions. The research projects made by the Emys Foundation receive advice from investigation groups of different universities (University of Barcelona, University Autonoma of Barcelona, University of Girona, and also the Aranzadi Science Society). The technicians of the Emys Foundation are also university investigators and take part actively in the writing and publication of scientific articles, congress executions, and technical conferences. All the information collected in the research projects of the Foundation is used to evaluate and improve our methods of natural environmental management.