“A oliveira é considerada a árvore da paz, mas estão a torná-la numa arma de guerra”
PÚBLICO (8/12/2024) A época da apanha da azeitona é a mais importante para comunidades rurais palestinianas. Mas com o intensificar de ataques do Exército e colonos israelitas, é também a mais perigosa. Apesar dos riscos, os palestinianos continuam a cuidar das suas oliveiras, e a colher os frutos de uma tradição com milhares de anos. Walaja, Palestina […]
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Los aceituneros palestinos y los árboles milenarios que los arraigan a la tierra
EL SALTO (8/12/2024) A mediados de noviembre, cuando los cielos se llenan de nubes y las primeras lluvias del otoño finalmente llegan a Palestina tras largos meses de sequía, Salah Abu Ali anuncia el inicio de la cosecha de uno de los olivos más antiguos del mundo en Walaja, un pueblo confinado entre Jerusalén y […]
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Waging a war on Palestinian olive trees
NEW INTERNATIONALIST (5/12/2024) After the first rainfall of autumn, Salah Abu Ali announced the harvest of one of the world’s oldest olive trees in al-Walaja, between Jerusalem and Bethlehem. He spread red mats around the enormous gnarled trunk, fetched wooden ladders to reach the high branches and gathered his family under the monumental tree. ‘Everyone […]
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Israeli army kills Palestinian grandmother picking olives from her own land
THE NEW ARAB (27/11/2024) When Hussam Abu Salameh received permission from the Israeli military to access the olive grove that has been in his family for generations, he decided to wait. His land, located east of Jenin in the north of the occupied West Bank, is next to the separation wall, where he had previously been shot […]
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Where shepherds coexist with wolves
BBC (9/8/2024) “My two favourite animals are sheep and wolves,” says Miguel Afonso as he looks over his flock of 200 sheep bleating and grazing on the gently rolling hills surrounding the village of Rio de Onor in northeastern Portugal. Holding his sturdy crook, the 34-year-old shepherd doesn’t see his love for wolves as inconsistent […]
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Nurturing Seeds of Freedom in Palestine
YES MAGAZINE (5/8/2024) Surrounded by a 26-foot-high separation wall, barbed wire, and a watchtower, a group of young Palestinians prepares a 3.5-acre piece of land for the growing season in spring. The noise of their hoes shaping the soil mixes with the humming of construction cranes from the nearby Israeli settlement of Modi’in Illit. Established […]
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‘Sometimes I wonder if I’ll come back’: Palestinian birdwatchers defy danger to scan the skies
THE GUARDIAN (6/6/2024) Sitting in the shade of an olive tree in the valley of Ein Qiniya, northwest of Ramallah, wildlife photographer Mohamad Shuaibi starts to enumerate the birds he can spot that spring morning. Swifts and swallows flit and swoop around, a short-toed eagle hovers in the distance, a jay sits perched on an […]
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“Nenhum lugar seguro” nas aldeias palestinianas atacadas por colonos israelitas
VISÃO (23/5/2024) Os campos de oliveiras e as cearas de trigo envolvem a aldeia de al-Mughayyir, na base de um vale no centro da Cisjordânia. À sombra das oliveiras estão carros esventrados, peças de metal corroídas pelas chamas e vidros partidos. A fuligem cobre os caminhos, as pedras, as paredes das casas. O cheiro a […]
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In Portugal’s Rural North, Communities Are Resisting Lithium Mining
NEW LINES MAGAZINE (24/4/2024) Under the banner of a “green transition,” the EU is rushing to revive mining to secure critical raw materials. Plans to build large, open-pit mines in northeastern Portugal have been met with strong opposition from local communities, who are contesting the state’s authority to grant mining licenses without their consent. As […]
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The rewilding project bringing back prehistoric bovines
BBC (13/3/2024) On a cold, misty morning, a herd of dun-coloured Sorraia horses, an endangered local breed, graze on grass and small shrubs, their short and stocky bodies enveloped in the mist by the Côa river in the mountains of northeastern Portugal. As the sun rises and the mist starts to dissipate, it unveils the […]
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