At 8am on a morning in late November, on the outskirts of Berlin-Brandenburg, hundreds of police officers have entered the Grunheide Forest, which has been occupied by activists from the "Stop Tesla" movement since the end of February. The area, referred to as the "water forest occupation" has been the focus of a battle against expansion plans for Tesla's gigafactory - its fourth in the world and the first in Europe - which environmentalists say is causing irreparable damage to local water reserves in a region already suffering from drought.
Activists hang from treehouses and ropes as high as 30 metres (98 feet) above the ground in November, attempting to evade police officers who are trying to evict them. They defy a clearing order issued by authorities conducting a search for World War II ammunition, remaining in the trees for three days, in protest against the expansion of the Tesla gigafactory in Grunheide, Germany, before they finally give in and leave.
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