Aerial view, Etzweiler, lignite open-pit mining, Hambach Forest, Burgewald Steinheide, landscape conservation area, brown coal mining, protest, forest occupation, Merzenich, Rhineland, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe

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