Lithium mining threatens to destroy the traditional life of the Trás os Montes region in northern Portugal.
This is a portrait of the remote and rugged region "Trás-os-Montes" (behind the mountains) in northern Portugal, which is the scene of a bizarre struggle for a green future: The quiet life of cattle breeding, olive harvesting, viticulture, field work and hunting in a region declared a globally important agricultural heritage by the United Nations may soon bee over since lithium was discovered in the valley: Instead of gentle hills, you may soon be looking into the largest lithium mine in Western Europe. Now the farmers fear drought, dust and dispossession.
