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    Activists Occupy An Ancient Forest In Germany To Save It

    Images by photographer Néha Hirve document how activists squatting in the 12,000-year-old Hambach Forest are fighting an energy company's encroachment.
    Oct 20, 2019 2 minutes
    'Sasha' resting. He, as most of the activists, prefers to use a 'forest name' to hide his identity.

    The 12,000-year-old Hambach Forest in western Germany is under threat. The country's biggest power company, RWE, has been clearing the ancient natural resource to make room for coal mining. Currently, there is only 10% left of the forest's original 13,500 acres.

    Hoping to halt the decimation, environmental activists have been squatting in the forest since 2012.

    "No one is coming to save us, so we have to save

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