Hambach Forest

Hambach forest is an old growth forest in the west of germany. Everything what has evolved here over thousands of years is now being destroyed to make space for a continually expanding lignite coal mine. For decades people have been resisting this profit driven destruction and for five years the forest is occupied with treehouses.

Climate change

There are three coal pits and five powerplants in the rhineland. Together they produce one third of the german carbon dioxide emission. These greenhouse gases change the climate worldwide, lead to more weather extremes and the destruction of habitats of humans and other animals. The humans who suffer first from global warming are not those, who are causing the harm, but those in the global south.

Together we can stop the destruction!

The future of our planet is in our hands. It is time, that we come together for a sustainable and just world beyond the deadly logic of capitalism. Together we can save the forest and the climate and create a world, in which no living being is exploited.

endangered

The unique oak and hornbeam forest grew over the last 12.000 years – and it being destroyed for nearly 40 years now. 550 meters below it are lignite deposits and if everything goes according to schedule the remaing forest will be gone in the next three years...

occupied

Not only is the forest being destroyed, thousands of people are displaced, their villages razed. The carbon dioxide emission are degrading the climate world wide. To prevent that our future on this planet goes up the smoke chimneys we occpuied this forest five years ago.

a liberated zone

We live in tree houses and an occupied meadow. In our struggle we don't solely try to fight lignite coal and extractionism, but to create a positive alternative. In Hambach Forest we try to live a life, in which the relations between people are not solely governed by greed and competion, but by solidarity, community and sustainability.

depending on you!

Starting in October RWE is permitted to cut more forest. This could mean the destrcution of the oldest remaining parts of the forest and many tree house occupations. But our resistance will be at least as big! Now is the time to act – climate change is not waiting for us.

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Important Pages

By hambacherforst 09/19/2018 09/19/2018 Deforestation, Network, Repression

Important information News Tickers: from September 18th on | September 14-17 | September 1-13 | How to become active more…

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Ticker september 18th and later

By hambacherforst 09/18/2018 09/21/2018 Actions, Dates, Deforestation, Forest Walks, Mobilization, Occupations, Press, Repression, Solidarity

deutsch | español | français See also the twitter accounts: @HambiBleibt @HambiEA #HambacherForst #HambiBleibt Videostreams: @anettselle Videos von gestern: @MKreutzfeldt September 21st 13:12 Police moves closer to the tripods at the edge of the forest. Several activists sitting under the tripod, singing. 12:58 Lorien: Climbing-police and RWE on their way to the monopod. Will probably be evicted soon. 12:28 Hundreds of police officers, are preventing people from entering the forest… more…

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Declaration from the canopy following yesterday’s events (Thu, Sep 20th)

By hambacherforst 09/21/2018 09/21/2018 Standard

(Statement from one person in the forest, not from the whole movement.) Throughout a history of relentless and brutal police interventions, those occupying Hambacher Wald in opposition to RWE’s ecological devastation and structural violence, have been forced to seek recourse in even more inventive methods of non-violent resistance, often putting their own safety at risk. Over the years many of us have been physically violated, persecuted and put in jail… more…

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Press release 09/20/2018 – Tragic death in Hambach Forest

By hambacherforst 09/20/2018 09/21/2018 Backgrounds, Press

On Wednesday afternoon about 3:45 pm, the movement journalist, blogger and activist Steffen Horst Meyn, died in the tree house village Beechtown in Hambach Forest. He crashed while attempting to document an ongoing eviction action by the Special Task Force of Police (SEK), from a suspension bridge from about 20 m height. Rescue workers on the ground tried to resuscitate him. According to our information, however, he died a little… more…

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Commemoration of the person who died in Hambach Forest

By hambacherforst 09/20/2018 09/21/2018 Dates, Solidarity

After the terrible accident that occurred during the evictions, commemorative events will take place today in different places. From various sources (especially social media, e-mail) we know about these events: Last night Berlin, until 2 o’clock, Friedrichstraße 95: Memorial vigil in memory Thu, September 20 Nuremberg, 6 pm, at the Lorenzkirche Berlin, 6 pm, Hiroshimastraße 12: Memorial vigil in memory Essen, from the morning, Hauptbahnhof exit Freiheit at the monument… more…

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Journalist fell from tree and died – activists demand immediate intervention stop in Hambach Forest

By waldzwei 09/19/2018 09/21/2018 Backgrounds, Repression, Solidarity

deutsch | español | français A friend who has accompanied us as a journalist for a long time in the forest, fell today from a suspension bridge over 20 meters high in Beechtown and died. At that time police and RWE tried to evict the tree house village. The SEK was in the process of arresting an activist near the suspension bridge. Our friend was apparently on the way there… more…

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Forest-walk this Sunday (23rd September), or any day!

By hambacherforst 09/18/2018 09/20/2018 Backgrounds, Deforestation, Forest Walks, Occupations, Repression, Solidarity, Standard

Every person has a right to experience nature, see the trees, feel the leaf-covered ground under their feet, and hear the calm ambiance of the forest. However, in the 12,000 year old Hambach Forest, the police are making it hard for nature-lovers young and old, to do so. The whole area in and around the Hambach forest has been officially declared as a “danger-zone”, giving the forces of the state… more…

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PRESS-ANNOUNCEMENT 17.09.18

By hambacherforst 09/18/2018 09/18/2018 Standard

EVICTION IN THE EAST AND THE WEST, SOLIDARITY CONCERT IN FRONT OF THE FOREST With tired eyes we are writing the press-announcement for the day. Since morning the eviction of the treehouse-village. With four cherry-pickers the police attempted to bring down the people from the traverses and tree-houses, but through lock-ons, the good and motivated mood of the activists and the supporters, four treehouses stayed occupied and undestroyed. The eviction… more…

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SOLI CONCERT AT THE FOREST TONIGHT

By hambacherforst 09/17/2018 09/17/2018 Standard

Come by, bring all your friends and comrades! Show your solidarity with the Hambach Forest! #hambibleibt more…

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PRESS CONFERENCE 16.09.18

By hambacherforst 09/17/2018 09/17/2018 Standard

Activists on the treehouse Nonames near Gallia have given a press conference Despite the massive restriction of the “freedom of the press” by police in the Hambach Forest one (and only one!) press team actually managed to hear and record the statement from the activists. Here you find the link to the video! Unfortunately it is in German. Today (monday) at 12h a second press conference will take place at… more…