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Hambach Forest's rare Bechstein's bat population was threatened.. Hambach Forest is rich in biodiversity and home to 142 species regarded as important for conservation. The forest has been called "the last remnant of a sylvan ecosystem that has occupied this part of the Rhine River plain between Aachen and Cologne since the end of the last ice age". [2]
The Tagebau Hambach is a large open-pit coal mine (German: Tagebau) in Niederzier and Elsdorf, North Rhine–Westphalia, Germany. It is operated by RWE and used for mining lignite. The mine is on the site of the ancient Hambach Forest, which was purchased by RWE in 1978. The company then cut most of the forest down and cleared it to mine.
Ende Gelände 2018, occupation of the Hambach open-pit lignite mine, Germany Ende Gelände 2019 , occupations around the Garzweiler and Lusatian open pit mines, Germany Ende Gelände 2020 , occupation of Garzweiler open pit mine and also a gas pipeline construction site, Germany, occupation of Danneröder forest to prevent its destruction for a ...
On the 27 October 2018, a bucket-wheel excavator near the village of Morschenich as well as the rails of the Hambach industrial spur belonging to the Hambach surface mine were occupied by several thousand activists for 22 hours in order to symbolically block the transfer of lignite to the power plants. [2]
After the protests at Hambach Forest, which became known as "Hambi", activists moved to Lützerath, which was nicknamed "Lützi". [8] [9] In March 2022, the court ruled that RWE could proceed with the mining and was entitled to demolish the village, so Heukamp left his farm. [3] [9] The Garzweiler mine is eventually planned to be made into a ...
Since 2012, Hambach Forest has been occupied by activists seeking to prevent its destruction by the energy company RWE. [110] While the majority of squatting in Germany still comes from left-wing actors there are also examples of right-wing squatting. An example for right-wing squatting in Berlin is the occupation of Weitlingstraße 122.
The acronym "ZAD" meaning "zone to defend" (French: "zone à défendre") is a détournement of "deferred development area" (French: "zone d'aménagement différé"). [1]In 2015, the French term "zadiste" (English: Zadist) entered the 2016 edition of Le Petit Robert dictionary as "a militant occupying a ZAD to oppose a proposed development that would damage the environment."
Hambach (Niederzier) , a village near Niederzier, Düren, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany Hambach open pit mine (German: Tagebau Hambach), a large opencast mine in North Rhine- Westphalia, Germany; Hambach Forest, a biodiversity-rich forest near the mine, center of protests against threats of being cut down