And he defends the right of the activists to use the Hambacher Forest for their protest. "Coal has a tradition here. It's a cultural asset," he says. "And, as outsiders, we're challenging that.

Hambacher Forst, Yasuní and the fight to save the planet In Germany, mobilization has paid off: the destruction of a thousand-year-old forest has been stopped.

In Hambacher Forest near Cologne, occupied by protesters seeking to prevent the forest being razed to the ground, a journalist was killed this week when a suspension bridge between two tree houses ...

Police enters the 'Hambacher Forest' that protesters are trying to stop from being chopped down for a coal mine in Kerpen, Germany, Wednesday, Sept. 5, 2018. (Oliver Berg/dpa via AP) ...

In 2016, it was revealed that at least one member of the state’s parliamentary Interior Committee, responsible for policing the Hambacher Forest, was also an RWE employee with an annual corporate ...

Environmental protesters occupying the Hambacher Forst forest threw rocks at police and loggers Monday, as clearing work began to expand one of Germany's largest open-pit coal mines.

In Germany, 50,0000 marchers celebrate unexpected win for Hambacher Forest against energy giant An unexpected High Court ruling in the German state of North Rhein Westphalia (NRW) has blocked energy ...

A banner reads "Hambacher Forst stays" as activists block the transport rail to a nearby brown coal power plant to protest against the clearance of the forest "Hambacher Forst", near Elsdorf ...

BERLIN (AP) — Thousands of environmentalists are protesting the expansion of a coal mine in western Germany a day after a court blocked the felling of an endangered forest near the site. The ...

And he defends the right of the activists to use the Hambacher Forest for their protest. "Coal has a tradition here. It's a cultural asset," he says. "And, as outsiders, we're challenging that.

We're sitting under the trees of the Hambacher Forest, in the west of Germany, 30km (20 miles) from the city of Cologne. They all live in the "Hambi", as they call it, in tree houses like the one ...