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Joana Mourão Carvalho

'Savanna and the Mountain': How one rural Portuguese community fought a British lithium mining giant

It's a modern real-life tale of David vs Goliath set to music. The activism of the people of the rural community of Covas do Barroso against a British lithium mining giant will be shared on the silver screens across Portugal this week

Paulo Carneiro's 'Savannah and the Mountain' centres on the northern mountainous Boticas community in Trás-os-Montes and their fight for their land after discovering that the firm plans to build Europe's largest open-pit lithium mine just a few metres from their homes.

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