{"id":8567,"date":"2025-10-30T12:45:32","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T12:45:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/azimuthworldfoundation.org\/?p=8567"},"modified":"2025-12-02T10:45:36","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T10:45:36","slug":"udcb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/azimuthworldfoundation.org\/pt-pt\/historias\/udcb\/","title":{"rendered":"Connecting the Dots com a Unidos em Defesa de Covas do Barroso"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container has-pattern-background has-mask-background nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"max-width:1248px;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:1.92%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:20px;--awb-spacing-left-large:1.92%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-order-medium:0;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-order-small:0;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-image-element awb-imageframe-style awb-imageframe-style-below awb-imageframe-style-1\" style=\"text-align:center;--awb-margin-bottom:20px;--awb-caption-text-size:15px;--awb-caption-title-font-family:var(--h2_typography-font-family);--awb-caption-title-font-weight:var(--h2_typography-font-weight);--awb-caption-title-font-style:var(--h2_typography-font-style);--awb-caption-title-size:var(--h2_typography-font-size);--awb-caption-title-transform:var(--h2_typography-text-transform);--awb-caption-title-line-height:var(--h2_typography-line-height);--awb-caption-title-letter-spacing:var(--h2_typography-letter-spacing);--awb-caption-text-font-family:&quot;NeueKabel-Regular&quot;;--awb-caption-text-font-style:normal;--awb-caption-text-font-weight:400;\"><span class=\" fusion-imageframe imageframe-none imageframe-1 hover-type-none\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"477\" title=\"CtD_UDCB_PostCover.001\" src=\"https:\/\/azimuthworldfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/CtD_UDCB_PostCover.001.jpeg\" data-orig-src=\"https:\/\/azimuthworldfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/CtD_UDCB_PostCover.001-1024x477.jpeg\" alt class=\"lazyload img-responsive wp-image-8518\" srcset=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%27%20width%3D%271080%27%20height%3D%27503%27%20viewBox%3D%270%200%201080%20503%27%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%271080%27%20height%3D%27503%27%20fill-opacity%3D%220%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/azimuthworldfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/CtD_UDCB_PostCover.001-200x93.jpeg 200w, https:\/\/azimuthworldfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/CtD_UDCB_PostCover.001-400x186.jpeg 400w, https:\/\/azimuthworldfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/CtD_UDCB_PostCover.001-600x279.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/azimuthworldfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/CtD_UDCB_PostCover.001-800x373.jpeg 800w, https:\/\/azimuthworldfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/CtD_UDCB_PostCover.001.jpeg 1080w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-orig-sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/span><div class=\"awb-imageframe-caption-container\" style=\"text-align:center;\"><div class=\"awb-imageframe-caption\"><h2 class=\"awb-imageframe-caption-title\">CtD_UDCB_PostCover.001<\/h2><p class=\"awb-imageframe-caption-text\">Aldeia de Covas do Barroso, no norte de Portugal<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1 fusion-text-no-margin\" style=\"--awb-font-size:30px;--awb-margin-bottom:20px;--awb-text-font-family:&quot;NeueKabel-Black&quot;;--awb-text-font-style:normal;--awb-text-font-weight:400;\"><p>Ao lutar contra um projeto de minera\u00e7\u00e3o de l\u00edtio de grande escala, uma comunidade no norte de Portugal defende as suas pr\u00e1ticas agr\u00edcolas sustent\u00e1veis e o Patrim\u00f3nio Agr\u00edcola Mundial que h\u00e1 gera\u00e7\u00f5es a sust\u00e9m.<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-2 fusion-text-no-margin\" style=\"--awb-font-size:20px;--awb-margin-bottom:20px;--awb-text-font-family:&quot;NeueKabel-Regular&quot;;--awb-text-font-style:normal;--awb-text-font-weight:400;\"><p>Neste epis\u00f3dio partilhamos uma conversa gravada em Covas do Barroso, no norte de Portugal, durante o acampamento anual de resist\u00eancia contra a explora\u00e7\u00e3o de l\u00edtio.<\/p>\n<p>Esta pequena aldeia, reconhecida pela FAO como Patrim\u00f3nio Agr\u00edcola Mundial, enfrenta os planos para uma das maiores minas de l\u00edtio a c\u00e9u aberto da Europa. Uma mina que amea\u00e7a destruir 2000 hectares de baldios comunit\u00e1rios, contaminar as \u00e1guas do Rio Covas &#8211; afluente do Douro &#8211; e deslocar uma comunidade que h\u00e1 gera\u00e7\u00f5es vive de forma autossuficiente.<\/p>\n<p>Ouvimos os testemunhos de Aida Fernandes (agricultora local), Catarina Alves Scarrott (natural de Covas e actualmente professora em Londres) e Mariana Riquito (investigadora), que integram a Unidos em Defesa de Covas do Barroso.<\/p>\n<p>Siga o trabalho da UDCB atrav\u00e9s do <a style=\"color: var(--awb-color4);\" href=\"https:\/\/udcb.pt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><u>official website oficial<\/u><\/a> da organiza\u00e7\u00e3o, ou das contas oficiais no <a style=\"color: var(--awb-color4);\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/udcovasdobarroso\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><u>Instagram<\/u><\/a> e no <a style=\"color: var(--awb-color4);\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/udcovasdobarroso\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><u>Facebook<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-3 fusion-text-no-margin\" style=\"--awb-font-size:15px;--awb-margin-bottom:20px;--awb-text-font-family:&quot;NeueKabel-Black&quot;;--awb-text-font-style:normal;--awb-text-font-weight:400;\"><p>Veja a vers\u00e3o em <span style=\"color: var(--awb-color4);\">v\u00eddeo<\/span> em baixo, ou fa\u00e7a scroll para ouvir a vers\u00e3o em podcast ou para ler a vers\u00e3o escrita.<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-video fusion-youtube\" style=\"--awb-max-width:600px;--awb-max-height:360px;--awb-align-self:center;--awb-width:100%;--awb-margin-bottom:20px;\"><div class=\"video-shortcode\"><lite-youtube videoid=\"ZWaE7PDHShI\" class=\"landscape\" params=\"wmode=transparent&autoplay=1&enablejsapi=1\" title=\"YouTube video player 1\" width=\"600\" height=\"360\" data-thumbnail-size=\"auto\"><\/lite-youtube><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-separator fusion-full-width-sep\" style=\"align-self: center;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;margin-bottom:20px;width:100%;\" id=\"PODCAST\"><div class=\"fusion-separator-border sep-double sep-solid\" style=\"--awb-height:20px;--awb-amount:20px;--awb-sep-color:var(--awb-color4);border-color:var(--awb-color4);border-top-width:10px;border-bottom-width:10px;\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-4 fusion-text-no-margin\" style=\"--awb-font-size:20px;--awb-text-color:var(--awb-color4);--awb-margin-bottom:20px;--awb-text-font-family:&quot;NeueKabel-Black&quot;;--awb-text-font-style:normal;--awb-text-font-weight:400;\"><p>CONNECTING THE DOTS \u2013 PODCAST<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-5 fusion-text-no-margin\" style=\"--awb-font-size:15px;--awb-margin-bottom:20px;--awb-text-font-family:&quot;NeueKabel-Regular&quot;;--awb-text-font-style:normal;--awb-text-font-weight:400;\"><p><strong>N\u00e3o vive sem os seus podcasts?<\/strong> Para n\u00e3o perder um epis\u00f3dio, subscreva o canal da Azimuth na Apple Podcasts ou no Spotify, <a style=\"color: var(--awb-color4);\" href=\"https:\/\/azimuthworldfoundation.org\/pt-pt\/perspectivas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><u>aqui<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div><iframe style=\"border-radius:12px\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/episode\/5n3gAAWZbkGHAxbNVUb5mn?utm_source=generator\" width=\"100%\" height=\"152\" frameBorder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/iframe><div class=\"fusion-separator fusion-full-width-sep\" style=\"align-self: center;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;margin-top:20px;margin-bottom:20px;width:100%;\"><div class=\"fusion-separator-border sep-single sep-solid\" style=\"--awb-height:20px;--awb-amount:20px;border-color:var(--awb-color3);border-top-width:1px;\"><\/div><\/div><iframe allow=\"autoplay *; encrypted-media *; fullscreen *; clipboard-write\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"175\" style=\"width:100%;max-width:660px;overflow:hidden;border-radius:10px;\" sandbox=\"allow-forms allow-popups allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-storage-access-by-user-activation allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.podcasts.apple.com\/pt\/podcast\/pt-original-connecting-the-dots-com-unidos-em-defesa\/id1607307337?i=1000734212408\"><\/iframe><div class=\"fusion-separator fusion-full-width-sep\" style=\"align-self: center;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;margin-top:20px;margin-bottom:20px;width:100%;\"><div class=\"fusion-separator-border sep-double sep-solid\" style=\"--awb-height:20px;--awb-amount:20px;--awb-sep-color:var(--awb-color4);border-color:var(--awb-color4);border-top-width:10px;border-bottom-width:10px;\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-6 fusion-text-no-margin\" style=\"--awb-font-size:20px;--awb-text-color:var(--awb-color4);--awb-margin-bottom:20px;--awb-text-font-family:&quot;NeueKabel-Black&quot;;--awb-text-font-style:normal;--awb-text-font-weight:400;\"><p>TRANSCRI\u00c7\u00c3O<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-image-element awb-imageframe-style awb-imageframe-style-below awb-imageframe-style-2\" style=\"text-align:center;--awb-margin-bottom:20px;--awb-caption-text-color:var(--awb-color8);--awb-caption-text-size:15px;--awb-caption-title-font-family:var(--h2_typography-font-family);--awb-caption-title-font-weight:var(--h2_typography-font-weight);--awb-caption-title-font-style:var(--h2_typography-font-style);--awb-caption-title-size:var(--h2_typography-font-size);--awb-caption-title-transform:var(--h2_typography-text-transform);--awb-caption-title-line-height:var(--h2_typography-line-height);--awb-caption-title-letter-spacing:var(--h2_typography-letter-spacing);--awb-caption-text-font-family:&quot;NeueKabel-Regular&quot;;--awb-caption-text-font-style:normal;--awb-caption-text-font-weight:400;\"><span class=\" fusion-imageframe imageframe-none imageframe-2 hover-type-none\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"681\" title=\"43662679_339503800133100_4064701076920598528_n\" src=\"https:\/\/azimuthworldfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/43662679_339503800133100_4064701076920598528_n.jpg\" data-orig-src=\"https:\/\/azimuthworldfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/43662679_339503800133100_4064701076920598528_n-1024x681.jpg\" alt class=\"lazyload img-responsive wp-image-8524\" srcset=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%27%20width%3D%271083%27%20height%3D%27720%27%20viewBox%3D%270%200%201083%20720%27%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%271083%27%20height%3D%27720%27%20fill-opacity%3D%220%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/azimuthworldfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/43662679_339503800133100_4064701076920598528_n-200x133.jpg 200w, https:\/\/azimuthworldfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/43662679_339503800133100_4064701076920598528_n-400x266.jpg 400w, https:\/\/azimuthworldfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/43662679_339503800133100_4064701076920598528_n-600x399.jpg 600w, https:\/\/azimuthworldfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/43662679_339503800133100_4064701076920598528_n-800x532.jpg 800w, https:\/\/azimuthworldfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/43662679_339503800133100_4064701076920598528_n.jpg 1083w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-orig-sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/span><div class=\"awb-imageframe-caption-container\" style=\"text-align:center;\"><div class=\"awb-imageframe-caption\"><h2 class=\"awb-imageframe-caption-title\">43662679_339503800133100_4064701076920598528_n<\/h2><p class=\"awb-imageframe-caption-text\">Cr\u00e9dito: Unidos em Defesa de Covas do Barroso<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-7 fusion-text-no-margin\" style=\"--awb-font-size:15px;--awb-margin-bottom:20px;--awb-text-font-family:&quot;NeueKabel-Black&quot;;--awb-text-font-style:normal;--awb-text-font-weight:400;\"><p>AIDA FERNANDES (AGRICULTORA LOCAL, MEMBRO DA UDCB)<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-8 fusion-text-no-margin\" style=\"--awb-font-size:20px;--awb-margin-bottom:20px;--awb-text-font-family:&quot;NeueKabel-Regular&quot;;--awb-text-font-style:normal;--awb-text-font-weight:400;\"><p>Covas do Barroso \u00e9 uma aldeia maioritariamente agr\u00edcola. Ou seja, as pessoas vivem da agricultura e da pastor\u00edcia. Eu tamb\u00e9m sou agricultora e tenho vacas, e vivo da agricultura.<\/p>\n<p>E Covas do Barroso \u00e9 um lugar \u00fanico. Porque tem caracter\u00edsticas que conseguem fazer com que sejamos praticamente autossuficientes. Ou seja, conseguimos produzir tudo o que precisamos no dia-a-dia, desde o azeite, aos legumes, \u00e0 carne, \u00e0 fruta, peixe do nosso rio.<\/p>\n<p>Por isso, acho que isso \u00e9 uma riqueza muito grande, termos o privil\u00e9gio de viver assim, num lugar em que temos ar puro, \u00e1gua limpa e muito verde.<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-image-element awb-imageframe-style awb-imageframe-style-below awb-imageframe-style-3\" style=\"text-align:center;--awb-margin-bottom:20px;--awb-caption-text-color:var(--awb-color8);--awb-caption-text-size:15px;--awb-caption-title-font-family:var(--h2_typography-font-family);--awb-caption-title-font-weight:var(--h2_typography-font-weight);--awb-caption-title-font-style:var(--h2_typography-font-style);--awb-caption-title-size:var(--h2_typography-font-size);--awb-caption-title-transform:var(--h2_typography-text-transform);--awb-caption-title-line-height:var(--h2_typography-line-height);--awb-caption-title-letter-spacing:var(--h2_typography-letter-spacing);--awb-caption-text-font-family:&quot;NeueKabel-Regular&quot;;--awb-caption-text-font-style:normal;--awb-caption-text-font-weight:400;\"><span class=\" fusion-imageframe imageframe-none imageframe-3 hover-type-none\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" title=\"120540483_846408832775925_706895992404984681_n\" src=\"https:\/\/azimuthworldfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/120540483_846408832775925_706895992404984681_n.jpg\" data-orig-src=\"https:\/\/azimuthworldfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/120540483_846408832775925_706895992404984681_n-1024x683.jpg\" alt class=\"lazyload img-responsive wp-image-8530\" srcset=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%27%20width%3D%271944%27%20height%3D%271296%27%20viewBox%3D%270%200%201944%201296%27%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%271944%27%20height%3D%271296%27%20fill-opacity%3D%220%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/azimuthworldfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/120540483_846408832775925_706895992404984681_n-200x133.jpg 200w, https:\/\/azimuthworldfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/120540483_846408832775925_706895992404984681_n-400x267.jpg 400w, https:\/\/azimuthworldfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/120540483_846408832775925_706895992404984681_n-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/azimuthworldfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/120540483_846408832775925_706895992404984681_n-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/azimuthworldfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/120540483_846408832775925_706895992404984681_n-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-orig-sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/span><div class=\"awb-imageframe-caption-container\" style=\"text-align:center;\"><div class=\"awb-imageframe-caption\"><h2 class=\"awb-imageframe-caption-title\">120540483_846408832775925_706895992404984681_n<\/h2><p class=\"awb-imageframe-caption-text\">Aida Fernandes | Cr\u00e9dito: Unidos em Defesa de Covas do Barroso<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-separator fusion-full-width-sep\" style=\"align-self: center;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;margin-bottom:20px;width:100%;\"><div class=\"fusion-separator-border sep-single sep-solid\" style=\"--awb-height:20px;--awb-amount:20px;--awb-sep-color:var(--awb-color4);border-color:var(--awb-color4);border-top-width:5px;\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-9 fusion-text-no-margin\" style=\"--awb-font-size:15px;--awb-text-color:var(--awb-color4);--awb-margin-bottom:20px;--awb-text-font-family:&quot;NeueKabel-Regular&quot;;--awb-text-font-style:normal;--awb-text-font-weight:400;\"><p><em>Em Maio de 2017, movimenta\u00e7\u00f5es estranhas come\u00e7aram no monte. Uma antiga licen\u00e7a de 2006 para explora\u00e7\u00e3o de quartzo e feldspato estava a ser usada para algo muito diferente &#8211; e muito maior.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-separator fusion-full-width-sep\" style=\"align-self: center;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;margin-bottom:20px;width:100%;\"><div class=\"fusion-separator-border sep-single sep-solid\" style=\"--awb-height:20px;--awb-amount:20px;--awb-sep-color:var(--awb-color4);border-color:var(--awb-color4);border-top-width:5px;\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-10 fusion-text-no-margin\" style=\"--awb-font-size:15px;--awb-margin-bottom:20px;--awb-text-font-family:&quot;NeueKabel-Black&quot;;--awb-text-font-style:normal;--awb-text-font-weight:400;\"><p>AIDA FERNANDES<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-11 fusion-text-no-margin\" style=\"--awb-font-size:20px;--awb-margin-bottom:20px;--awb-text-font-family:&quot;NeueKabel-Regular&quot;;--awb-text-font-style:normal;--awb-text-font-weight:400;\"><p>Havia uma pedreira de quartzo e feldspato desde 2006, que nunca tinha sido explorada. Em Maio de 2017 come\u00e7ou a haver movimenta\u00e7\u00f5es no monte. E eu lembro-me de ter perguntado a uma das funcion\u00e1rias o que \u00e9 que andavam a fazer. E ela disse, \u201cAh, s\u00e3o s\u00f3 uns trabalhos\u201d. N\u00f3s, aqui, o ver\u00e3o \u00e9 de muito trabalho. Porque n\u00f3s somos tipo formiga, recolhemos no ver\u00e3o para o inverno. E, ent\u00e3o, as pessoas est\u00e3o mais concentradas nas suas tarefas, e n\u00e3o d\u00e3o tanta aten\u00e7\u00e3o.<\/p>\n<p>E passado um m\u00eas, a Catarina liga-me de Londres, a perguntar-me o que \u00e9 que se passa em Covas. Quando ela me diz isso, eu perguntei, \u201cN\u00e3o se passa nada. Muito calor e muito trabalho.\u201d E ela disse, \u201cEnt\u00e3o, mas li aqui que a maior mina a c\u00e9u aberto \u00e9 em Covas do Barroso.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Eu nem sabia o que era l\u00edtio, t\u00e3o pouco, confesso. Quando ela come\u00e7ou a descrever o processo, ou seja, que neste momento n\u00f3s t\u00ednhamos uma pedreira, mas que a seguir n\u00e3o era uma pedreira, mas que era uma lavaria, e a dimens\u00e3o, foi um choque, foi assustador. \u201cIsso \u00e9 imposs\u00edvel, n\u00e3o pode ser. Isto n\u00e3o \u00e9 poss\u00edvel. Como \u00e9 que est\u00e3o a fazer uma coisa destas sem n\u00f3s sequer termos conhecimento?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-image-element awb-imageframe-style awb-imageframe-style-below awb-imageframe-style-4\" style=\"text-align:center;--awb-margin-bottom:20px;--awb-caption-text-color:var(--awb-color8);--awb-caption-text-size:15px;--awb-caption-title-font-family:var(--h2_typography-font-family);--awb-caption-title-font-weight:var(--h2_typography-font-weight);--awb-caption-title-font-style:var(--h2_typography-font-style);--awb-caption-title-size:var(--h2_typography-font-size);--awb-caption-title-transform:var(--h2_typography-text-transform);--awb-caption-title-line-height:var(--h2_typography-line-height);--awb-caption-title-letter-spacing:var(--h2_typography-letter-spacing);--awb-caption-text-font-family:&quot;NeueKabel-Regular&quot;;--awb-caption-text-font-style:normal;--awb-caption-text-font-weight:400;\"><span class=\" fusion-imageframe imageframe-none imageframe-4 hover-type-none\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" title=\"49564077_386794558737357_7770900013873364992_n\" src=\"https:\/\/azimuthworldfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/49564077_386794558737357_7770900013873364992_n.jpg\" data-orig-src=\"https:\/\/azimuthworldfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/49564077_386794558737357_7770900013873364992_n-1024x768.jpg\" alt class=\"lazyload img-responsive wp-image-8532\" srcset=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%27%20width%3D%272048%27%20height%3D%271536%27%20viewBox%3D%270%200%202048%201536%27%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%272048%27%20height%3D%271536%27%20fill-opacity%3D%220%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/azimuthworldfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/49564077_386794558737357_7770900013873364992_n-200x150.jpg 200w, https:\/\/azimuthworldfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/49564077_386794558737357_7770900013873364992_n-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/azimuthworldfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/49564077_386794558737357_7770900013873364992_n-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/azimuthworldfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/49564077_386794558737357_7770900013873364992_n-800x600.jpg 800w, https:\/\/azimuthworldfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/49564077_386794558737357_7770900013873364992_n-1200x900.jpg 1200w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-orig-sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/span><div class=\"awb-imageframe-caption-container\" style=\"text-align:center;\"><div class=\"awb-imageframe-caption\"><h2 class=\"awb-imageframe-caption-title\">49564077_386794558737357_7770900013873364992_n<\/h2><p class=\"awb-imageframe-caption-text\">\u00c1rea da antiga licen\u00e7a para a minera\u00e7\u00e3o de quartzo e feldspato | Cr\u00e9dito: Unidos em Defesa de Covas do Barroso<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-12 fusion-text-no-margin\" style=\"--awb-font-size:15px;--awb-margin-bottom:20px;--awb-text-font-family:&quot;NeueKabel-Black&quot;;--awb-text-font-style:normal;--awb-text-font-weight:400;\"><p>CATARINA ALVES SCARROTT (NATURAL DE COVAS E ACTUALMENTE PROFESSORA EM LONDRES, MEMBRO DA UDCB)<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-13 fusion-text-no-margin\" style=\"--awb-font-size:20px;--awb-margin-bottom:20px;--awb-text-font-family:&quot;NeueKabel-Regular&quot;;--awb-text-font-style:normal;--awb-text-font-weight:400;\"><p>Eu sabia que havia interesse na minera\u00e7\u00e3o de l\u00edtio, j\u00e1 h\u00e1 algum tempo. Sabia tamb\u00e9m que havia uma licen\u00e7a. Mas, entretanto, eu tamb\u00e9m tinha lido v\u00e1rios trabalhos acad\u00e9micos em que se fazia a promo\u00e7\u00e3o das reservas de l\u00edtio em Portugal, e especificamente aqui, em Covas do Barroso.<\/p>\n<p>Mas os mapas n\u00e3o eram assim muito claros, e n\u00e3o era muito claro exatamente onde se estava a pensar fazer, onde estavam as tais reservas de l\u00edtio. E depois, tamb\u00e9m, a licen\u00e7a era para feldspato e quartzo. Ent\u00e3o, as coisas parecia que n\u00e3o batiam certo. Porque, de repente, eles diziam que era no \u00e2mbito da licen\u00e7a antiga, mas agora estavam a falar em l\u00edtio, n\u00e3o estavam a falar em feldspato e quartzo. Porque o feldspato e o quartzo \u00e9 cortar a rocha e levar. O l\u00edtio \u00e9 um elemento essencial, e precisa de ser refinado com um processo muito complexo.<\/p>\n<p>J\u00e1 havia o tal estudo de impacto ambiental, mas a \u00e1rea parecia muito longe aqui da aldeia. Havia um mapa, num dos relat\u00f3rios, e o mapa, por mais pequeno que fosse, exclu\u00eda aqui a aldeia. N\u00e3o se via a aldeia. Mas houve l\u00e1 uns pontos de refer\u00eancia no mapa que me levaram a entender a extens\u00e3o e a proximidade da aldeia, e isso deixou-me muito, muito preocupada.<\/p>\n<p>Mas eu acho que aquilo que me preocupou ainda mais, foi a forma como as pessoas aqui estavam muito desinformadas e n\u00e3o sabiam aquilo que se passava. Na altura, em 2017, ainda n\u00e3o se entendia muito bem a import\u00e2ncia do l\u00edtio. Mas, nas minhas leituras em ingl\u00eas, nos jornais ingleses, j\u00e1 se falava. Aqui, n\u00e3o se falava muito. Acho que muita gente aqui n\u00e3o entendia o que era o l\u00edtio.<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-image-element awb-imageframe-style awb-imageframe-style-below awb-imageframe-style-5\" style=\"text-align:center;--awb-margin-bottom:20px;--awb-caption-text-color:var(--awb-color8);--awb-caption-text-size:15px;--awb-caption-title-font-family:var(--h2_typography-font-family);--awb-caption-title-font-weight:var(--h2_typography-font-weight);--awb-caption-title-font-style:var(--h2_typography-font-style);--awb-caption-title-size:var(--h2_typography-font-size);--awb-caption-title-transform:var(--h2_typography-text-transform);--awb-caption-title-line-height:var(--h2_typography-line-height);--awb-caption-title-letter-spacing:var(--h2_typography-letter-spacing);--awb-caption-text-font-family:&quot;NeueKabel-Regular&quot;;--awb-caption-text-font-style:normal;--awb-caption-text-font-weight:400;\"><span class=\" fusion-imageframe imageframe-none imageframe-5 hover-type-none\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" title=\"43627379_339503710133109_487045670708969472_n\" src=\"https:\/\/azimuthworldfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/43627379_339503710133109_487045670708969472_n.jpg\" data-orig-src=\"https:\/\/azimuthworldfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/43627379_339503710133109_487045670708969472_n-1024x576.jpg\" alt class=\"lazyload img-responsive wp-image-8542\" srcset=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%27%20width%3D%271334%27%20height%3D%27750%27%20viewBox%3D%270%200%201334%20750%27%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%271334%27%20height%3D%27750%27%20fill-opacity%3D%220%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/azimuthworldfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/43627379_339503710133109_487045670708969472_n-200x112.jpg 200w, https:\/\/azimuthworldfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/43627379_339503710133109_487045670708969472_n-400x225.jpg 400w, https:\/\/azimuthworldfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/43627379_339503710133109_487045670708969472_n-600x337.jpg 600w, https:\/\/azimuthworldfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/43627379_339503710133109_487045670708969472_n-800x450.jpg 800w, https:\/\/azimuthworldfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/43627379_339503710133109_487045670708969472_n-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/azimuthworldfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/43627379_339503710133109_487045670708969472_n.jpg 1334w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-orig-sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/span><div class=\"awb-imageframe-caption-container\" style=\"text-align:center;\"><div class=\"awb-imageframe-caption\"><h2 class=\"awb-imageframe-caption-title\">43627379_339503710133109_487045670708969472_n<\/h2><p class=\"awb-imageframe-caption-text\">Cr\u00e9dito: Unidos em Defesa de Covas do Barroso<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-14 fusion-text-no-margin\" style=\"--awb-font-size:15px;--awb-margin-bottom:20px;--awb-text-font-family:&quot;NeueKabel-Black&quot;;--awb-text-font-style:normal;--awb-text-font-weight:400;\"><p>MARIANA RIQUITO (INVESTIGADORA, MEMBRO DA UDCB)<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-15 fusion-text-no-margin\" style=\"--awb-font-size:20px;--awb-margin-bottom:20px;--awb-text-font-family:&quot;NeueKabel-Regular&quot;;--awb-text-font-style:normal;--awb-text-font-weight:400;\"><p>Eu soube no in\u00edcio de 2021, quando em Coimbra est\u00e1vamos a organizar uma mobiliza\u00e7\u00e3o contra a extrema-direita. E, nesse momento, muita gente de todo o pa\u00eds foi, e n\u00f3s cham\u00e1mos para fazer uma grande mobiliza\u00e7\u00e3o. E foi nesse momento, nessas conversas, que soube de planos para minera\u00e7\u00e3o de l\u00edtio em Portugal.<\/p>\n<p>E nesse ano, em Maio, Portugal estava com a presid\u00eancia do Conselho Europeu, e organizou uma confer\u00eancia intitulada \u201cGreen Mining\u201d, em que convidou, na verdade, representantes das empresas, e de lobbies de baterias, e todos os secret\u00e1rios de Estado da energia dos Estados-Membros da Uni\u00e3o Europeia, e as comunidades foram exclu\u00eddas de participar nessa confer\u00eancia. Ent\u00e3o, organizaram uma manifesta\u00e7\u00e3o \u00e0 frente do CCB. E foi a primeira vez que vi, n\u00e3o s\u00f3 o movimento aqui, de Covas do Barroso, mas tamb\u00e9m de Montalegre, e tamb\u00e9m, na altura, ainda da Serra da Arga e de outras comunidades do Norte de Portugal.<\/p>\n<p>E, nesse momento, tamb\u00e9m conheci algumas pessoas que me disseram que estavam com planos de organizar um acampamento. Vim a primeira vez a Covas, em Agosto de 2021. E apaixonei-me aqui pela aldeia, pelas pessoas, por esta beleza. Por esta alegria, tamb\u00e9m. Este acolhimento.<\/p>\n<p>E voltei c\u00e1, nessa altura e noutros meses, tamb\u00e9m. Enfim, fiquei bastante ligada. E quando comecei o doutoramento, em Fevereiro de 2022, perguntei aos meus orientadores se podia reorientar o estudo. Porque, de facto, queria estar mais presente e queria estar mais envolvida. E acabei a fazer tamb\u00e9m a minha investiga\u00e7\u00e3o sobre o que se est\u00e1 a passar aqui, em Covas.<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-image-element awb-imageframe-style awb-imageframe-style-below awb-imageframe-style-6\" style=\"text-align:center;--awb-margin-bottom:20px;--awb-caption-text-color:var(--awb-color8);--awb-caption-text-size:15px;--awb-caption-title-font-family:var(--h2_typography-font-family);--awb-caption-title-font-weight:var(--h2_typography-font-weight);--awb-caption-title-font-style:var(--h2_typography-font-style);--awb-caption-title-size:var(--h2_typography-font-size);--awb-caption-title-transform:var(--h2_typography-text-transform);--awb-caption-title-line-height:var(--h2_typography-line-height);--awb-caption-title-letter-spacing:var(--h2_typography-letter-spacing);--awb-caption-text-font-family:&quot;NeueKabel-Regular&quot;;--awb-caption-text-font-style:normal;--awb-caption-text-font-weight:400;\"><span class=\" fusion-imageframe imageframe-none imageframe-6 hover-type-none\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" title=\"49716191_394472027969610_5808412182248947712_n\" src=\"https:\/\/azimuthworldfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/49716191_394472027969610_5808412182248947712_n.jpg\" data-orig-src=\"https:\/\/azimuthworldfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/49716191_394472027969610_5808412182248947712_n-1024x768.jpg\" alt class=\"lazyload img-responsive wp-image-8565\" srcset=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%27%20width%3D%272048%27%20height%3D%271536%27%20viewBox%3D%270%200%202048%201536%27%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%272048%27%20height%3D%271536%27%20fill-opacity%3D%220%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/azimuthworldfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/49716191_394472027969610_5808412182248947712_n-200x150.jpg 200w, https:\/\/azimuthworldfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/49716191_394472027969610_5808412182248947712_n-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/azimuthworldfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/49716191_394472027969610_5808412182248947712_n-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/azimuthworldfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/49716191_394472027969610_5808412182248947712_n-800x600.jpg 800w, https:\/\/azimuthworldfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/49716191_394472027969610_5808412182248947712_n-1200x900.jpg 1200w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-orig-sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/span><div class=\"awb-imageframe-caption-container\" style=\"text-align:center;\"><div class=\"awb-imageframe-caption\"><h2 class=\"awb-imageframe-caption-title\">49716191_394472027969610_5808412182248947712_n<\/h2><p class=\"awb-imageframe-caption-text\">Cr\u00e9dito: Unidos em Defesa de Covas do Barroso<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-separator fusion-full-width-sep\" style=\"align-self: center;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;margin-bottom:20px;width:100%;\"><div class=\"fusion-separator-border sep-single sep-solid\" style=\"--awb-height:20px;--awb-amount:20px;--awb-sep-color:var(--awb-color4);border-color:var(--awb-color4);border-top-width:5px;\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-16 fusion-text-no-margin\" style=\"--awb-font-size:15px;--awb-text-color:var(--awb-color4);--awb-margin-bottom:20px;--awb-text-font-family:&quot;NeueKabel-Regular&quot;;--awb-text-font-style:normal;--awb-text-font-weight:400;\"><p><em>No cora\u00e7\u00e3o desta luta est\u00e1 o baldio &#8211; 2000 hectares de terra comunit\u00e1ria gerida democraticamente em assembleia de compartes, onde cada voz tem o mesmo peso, onde o rico e o pobre t\u00eam os mesmos direitos.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-separator fusion-full-width-sep\" style=\"align-self: center;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;margin-bottom:20px;width:100%;\"><div class=\"fusion-separator-border sep-single sep-solid\" style=\"--awb-height:20px;--awb-amount:20px;--awb-sep-color:var(--awb-color4);border-color:var(--awb-color4);border-top-width:5px;\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-17 fusion-text-no-margin\" style=\"--awb-font-size:15px;--awb-margin-bottom:20px;--awb-text-font-family:&quot;NeueKabel-Black&quot;;--awb-text-font-style:normal;--awb-text-font-weight:400;\"><p>AIDA FERNANDES<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-18 fusion-text-no-margin\" style=\"--awb-font-size:20px;--awb-margin-bottom:20px;--awb-text-font-family:&quot;NeueKabel-Regular&quot;;--awb-text-font-style:normal;--awb-text-font-weight:400;\"><p>Grande parte do projeto fica inserido em \u00e1rea de baldio. O baldio, neste momento, \u00e9 toda a floresta que est\u00e1 \u00e0 volta de Covas, da aldeia, que s\u00e3o cerca de 2000 hectares. \u00c9 o baldio que est\u00e1 amea\u00e7ado, mas, acima de tudo, \u00e9 a comunidade que est\u00e1 amea\u00e7ada. E a comunidade somos n\u00f3s. Porque n\u00e3o h\u00e1 baldio se n\u00e3o houver comunidade. Nenhuma decis\u00e3o sobre o baldio \u00e9 tomada sem ser em assembleia de compartes, e mediante a vontade da popula\u00e7\u00e3o que vive em Covas.<\/p>\n<p>E, tamb\u00e9m a n\u00edvel econ\u00f3mico, tem um peso muito grande. De pastoreio, recolha de lenha, matos. A quest\u00e3o da pesca, porque o rio fica inserido dentro do baldio. E a ca\u00e7a. Os cogumelos. S\u00e3o coisas muito pequenas, mas que s\u00e3o muito importantes para a comunidade, e que t\u00eam um peso hist\u00f3rico muito grande e que as pessoas d\u00e3o um grande apre\u00e7o.<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-image-element awb-imageframe-style awb-imageframe-style-below awb-imageframe-style-7\" style=\"text-align:center;--awb-margin-bottom:20px;--awb-caption-text-color:var(--awb-color8);--awb-caption-text-size:15px;--awb-caption-title-font-family:var(--h2_typography-font-family);--awb-caption-title-font-weight:var(--h2_typography-font-weight);--awb-caption-title-font-style:var(--h2_typography-font-style);--awb-caption-title-size:var(--h2_typography-font-size);--awb-caption-title-transform:var(--h2_typography-text-transform);--awb-caption-title-line-height:var(--h2_typography-line-height);--awb-caption-title-letter-spacing:var(--h2_typography-letter-spacing);--awb-caption-text-font-family:&quot;NeueKabel-Regular&quot;;--awb-caption-text-font-style:normal;--awb-caption-text-font-weight:400;\"><span class=\" fusion-imageframe imageframe-none imageframe-7 hover-type-none\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" title=\"142596422_931841547565986_5357956590964470930_n\" src=\"https:\/\/azimuthworldfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/142596422_931841547565986_5357956590964470930_n.jpg\" data-orig-src=\"https:\/\/azimuthworldfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/142596422_931841547565986_5357956590964470930_n-1024x683.jpg\" alt class=\"lazyload img-responsive wp-image-8538\" srcset=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%27%20width%3D%271944%27%20height%3D%271296%27%20viewBox%3D%270%200%201944%201296%27%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%271944%27%20height%3D%271296%27%20fill-opacity%3D%220%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/azimuthworldfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/142596422_931841547565986_5357956590964470930_n-200x133.jpg 200w, https:\/\/azimuthworldfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/142596422_931841547565986_5357956590964470930_n-400x267.jpg 400w, https:\/\/azimuthworldfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/142596422_931841547565986_5357956590964470930_n-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/azimuthworldfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/142596422_931841547565986_5357956590964470930_n-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/azimuthworldfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/142596422_931841547565986_5357956590964470930_n-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-orig-sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/span><div class=\"awb-imageframe-caption-container\" style=\"text-align:center;\"><div class=\"awb-imageframe-caption\"><h2 class=\"awb-imageframe-caption-title\">142596422_931841547565986_5357956590964470930_n<\/h2><p class=\"awb-imageframe-caption-text\">Cr\u00e9dito: Unidos em Defesa de Covas do Barroso<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-19 fusion-text-no-margin\" style=\"--awb-font-size:20px;--awb-margin-bottom:20px;--awb-text-font-family:&quot;NeueKabel-Regular&quot;;--awb-text-font-style:normal;--awb-text-font-weight:400;\"><p>Tamb\u00e9m \u00e9 importante porque, al\u00e9m de ser uma fonte de rendimento para a comunidade, \u00e9 tamb\u00e9m atrav\u00e9s do baldio que n\u00f3s conseguimos dar trabalhos e gerar emprego na freguesia, na aldeia.<\/p>\n<p>O [membro da UDCB] Carlos Libo diz uma frase que faz todo o sentido, que \u00e9: \u201cO baldio n\u00e3o discrimina o rico do pobre.\u201d Ou seja, os direitos s\u00e3o iguais para todos. Isso \u00e9 muito importante. \u00c9 uma terra a que todos temos direito, e que durante gera\u00e7\u00f5es foi o sustento de muitas fam\u00edlias.<\/p>\n<p>Por isso, acho que faz todo o sentido continuar a preservar e a ter um baldio. Porque, al\u00e9m de ser uma riqueza econ\u00f3mica, \u00e9 tamb\u00e9m uma quest\u00e3o de patrim\u00f3nio, \u00e9 uma quest\u00e3o de afeto, e as pessoas t\u00eam uma liga\u00e7\u00e3o muito forte com isso, com o baldio.<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-image-element awb-imageframe-style awb-imageframe-style-below awb-imageframe-style-8\" style=\"text-align:center;--awb-margin-bottom:20px;--awb-caption-text-color:var(--awb-color8);--awb-caption-text-size:15px;--awb-caption-title-font-family:var(--h2_typography-font-family);--awb-caption-title-font-weight:var(--h2_typography-font-weight);--awb-caption-title-font-style:var(--h2_typography-font-style);--awb-caption-title-size:var(--h2_typography-font-size);--awb-caption-title-transform:var(--h2_typography-text-transform);--awb-caption-title-line-height:var(--h2_typography-line-height);--awb-caption-title-letter-spacing:var(--h2_typography-letter-spacing);--awb-caption-text-font-family:&quot;NeueKabel-Regular&quot;;--awb-caption-text-font-style:normal;--awb-caption-text-font-weight:400;\"><span class=\" fusion-imageframe imageframe-none imageframe-8 hover-type-none\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" title=\"142743164_931841577565983_3246430788822908945_n\" src=\"https:\/\/azimuthworldfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/142743164_931841577565983_3246430788822908945_n.jpg\" data-orig-src=\"https:\/\/azimuthworldfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/142743164_931841577565983_3246430788822908945_n-1024x683.jpg\" alt class=\"lazyload img-responsive wp-image-8540\" srcset=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%27%20width%3D%271944%27%20height%3D%271296%27%20viewBox%3D%270%200%201944%201296%27%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%271944%27%20height%3D%271296%27%20fill-opacity%3D%220%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/azimuthworldfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/142743164_931841577565983_3246430788822908945_n-200x133.jpg 200w, https:\/\/azimuthworldfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/142743164_931841577565983_3246430788822908945_n-400x267.jpg 400w, https:\/\/azimuthworldfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/142743164_931841577565983_3246430788822908945_n-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/azimuthworldfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/142743164_931841577565983_3246430788822908945_n-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/azimuthworldfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/142743164_931841577565983_3246430788822908945_n-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-orig-sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/span><div class=\"awb-imageframe-caption-container\" style=\"text-align:center;\"><div class=\"awb-imageframe-caption\"><h2 class=\"awb-imageframe-caption-title\">142743164_931841577565983_3246430788822908945_n<\/h2><p class=\"awb-imageframe-caption-text\">Cr\u00e9dito: Unidos em Defesa de Covas do Barroso<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-separator fusion-full-width-sep\" style=\"align-self: center;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;margin-bottom:20px;width:100%;\"><div class=\"fusion-separator-border sep-single sep-solid\" style=\"--awb-height:20px;--awb-amount:20px;--awb-sep-color:var(--awb-color4);border-color:var(--awb-color4);border-top-width:5px;\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-20 fusion-text-no-margin\" style=\"--awb-font-size:15px;--awb-text-color:var(--awb-color4);--awb-margin-bottom:20px;--awb-text-font-family:&quot;NeueKabel-Regular&quot;;--awb-text-font-style:normal;--awb-text-font-weight:400;\"><p><em>Depois de anos sem conseguir autoriza\u00e7\u00e3o da comunidade para entrar nos terrenos, a empresa recorreu a uma ferramenta legal devastadora &#8211; a servid\u00e3o administrativa. O que se seguiu foram meses de repress\u00e3o e resist\u00eancia.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-separator fusion-full-width-sep\" style=\"align-self: center;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;margin-bottom:20px;width:100%;\"><div class=\"fusion-separator-border sep-single sep-solid\" style=\"--awb-height:20px;--awb-amount:20px;--awb-sep-color:var(--awb-color4);border-color:var(--awb-color4);border-top-width:5px;\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-21 fusion-text-no-margin\" style=\"--awb-font-size:15px;--awb-margin-bottom:20px;--awb-text-font-family:&quot;NeueKabel-Black&quot;;--awb-text-font-style:normal;--awb-text-font-weight:400;\"><p>AIDA FERNANDES<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-22 fusion-text-no-margin\" style=\"--awb-font-size:20px;--awb-margin-bottom:20px;--awb-text-font-family:&quot;NeueKabel-Regular&quot;;--awb-text-font-style:normal;--awb-text-font-weight:400;\"><p>A empresa chegou c\u00e1 em 2017. Em 2018, finalmente, n\u00f3s conseguimos perceber alguns dos nossos direitos. E um deles era que eles s\u00f3 podem entrar nos nossos terrenos com a nossa autoriza\u00e7\u00e3o. Na altura, n\u00f3s par\u00e1mos as prospec\u00e7\u00f5es no fim de 2018, e at\u00e9 Dezembro de 2024 eles n\u00e3o tiveram autoriza\u00e7\u00e3o para entrarem no baldio, nem nos particulares, nem nos da Junta de Freguesia.<\/p>\n<p>Ent\u00e3o, a empresa recorreu a essa ferramenta, que \u00e9 a servid\u00e3o administrativa, que o \u00faltimo Governo lhes deu. E contra tudo e contra todos, tivemos conhecimento pela GNR que isso ia acontecer. E foi muito intenso, foi muito tenso, foi muito sofrido para algumas pessoas ver as m\u00e1quinas nos seus terrenos, sem a sua autoriza\u00e7\u00e3o. A GNR a amea\u00e7\u00e1-los, e a obrig\u00e1-los a sa\u00edrem dos terrenos.<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-image-element awb-imageframe-style awb-imageframe-style-below awb-imageframe-style-9\" style=\"text-align:center;--awb-margin-bottom:20px;--awb-caption-text-color:var(--awb-color8);--awb-caption-text-size:15px;--awb-caption-title-font-family:var(--h2_typography-font-family);--awb-caption-title-font-weight:var(--h2_typography-font-weight);--awb-caption-title-font-style:var(--h2_typography-font-style);--awb-caption-title-size:var(--h2_typography-font-size);--awb-caption-title-transform:var(--h2_typography-text-transform);--awb-caption-title-line-height:var(--h2_typography-line-height);--awb-caption-title-letter-spacing:var(--h2_typography-letter-spacing);--awb-caption-text-font-family:&quot;NeueKabel-Regular&quot;;--awb-caption-text-font-style:normal;--awb-caption-text-font-weight:400;\"><span class=\" fusion-imageframe imageframe-none imageframe-9 hover-type-none\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" title=\"484646160_975374821400909_8831129697090075916_n\" src=\"https:\/\/azimuthworldfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/484646160_975374821400909_8831129697090075916_n.jpg\" data-orig-src=\"https:\/\/azimuthworldfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/484646160_975374821400909_8831129697090075916_n-1024x1024.jpg\" alt class=\"lazyload img-responsive wp-image-8534\" srcset=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%27%20width%3D%271182%27%20height%3D%271182%27%20viewBox%3D%270%200%201182%201182%27%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%271182%27%20height%3D%271182%27%20fill-opacity%3D%220%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/azimuthworldfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/484646160_975374821400909_8831129697090075916_n-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/azimuthworldfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/484646160_975374821400909_8831129697090075916_n-400x400.jpg 400w, https:\/\/azimuthworldfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/484646160_975374821400909_8831129697090075916_n-600x600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/azimuthworldfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/484646160_975374821400909_8831129697090075916_n-800x800.jpg 800w, https:\/\/azimuthworldfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/484646160_975374821400909_8831129697090075916_n.jpg 1182w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-orig-sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/span><div class=\"awb-imageframe-caption-container\" style=\"text-align:center;\"><div class=\"awb-imageframe-caption\"><h2 class=\"awb-imageframe-caption-title\">484646160_975374821400909_8831129697090075916_n<\/h2><p class=\"awb-imageframe-caption-text\">Cr\u00e9dito: Unidos em Defesa de Covas do Barroso<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-23 fusion-text-no-margin\" style=\"--awb-font-size:20px;--awb-margin-bottom:20px;--awb-text-font-family:&quot;NeueKabel-Regular&quot;;--awb-text-font-style:normal;--awb-text-font-weight:400;\"><p>Assim como hoje temos um dia de muito calor, tivemos dias extremos de inverno. E a Maria, e o Benjamim e o Dinis estavam l\u00e1 no terreno. E o Dinis ligava-me, e dizia-me: \u201cEles dizem que se n\u00e3o sairmos em 5 minutos que nos levam presos\u201d. E como estavam s\u00f3s, acabaram por ceder.<\/p>\n<p>Outras situa\u00e7\u00f5es em que sa\u00edmos de casa a pensar: \u201cHoje vamos presos.\u201d Porque n\u00f3s est\u00e1vamos l\u00e1 para defender o territ\u00f3rio, e cham\u00e1mos a comunica\u00e7\u00e3o social. E nesse dia tivemos sorte, porque a GNR ao ver a televis\u00e3o j\u00e1 recuou.<\/p>\n<p>E, pronto, eles conseguiram fazer os trabalhos que queriam, contra a vontade da popula\u00e7\u00e3o. Porque eles dizem que t\u00eam uma \u00f3ptima rela\u00e7\u00e3o com a comunidade, e que o projeto est\u00e1 \u00f3ptimo. Mas s\u00f3 conseguem entrar nos terrenos com essa ferramenta. E eles pediram uma segunda servid\u00e3o, que n\u00f3s j\u00e1 contest\u00e1mos. E agora vamos ver o que \u00e9 que vem a seguir.<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-image-element awb-imageframe-style awb-imageframe-style-below awb-imageframe-style-10\" style=\"text-align:center;--awb-margin-bottom:20px;--awb-caption-text-color:var(--awb-color8);--awb-caption-text-size:15px;--awb-caption-title-font-family:var(--h2_typography-font-family);--awb-caption-title-font-weight:var(--h2_typography-font-weight);--awb-caption-title-font-style:var(--h2_typography-font-style);--awb-caption-title-size:var(--h2_typography-font-size);--awb-caption-title-transform:var(--h2_typography-text-transform);--awb-caption-title-line-height:var(--h2_typography-line-height);--awb-caption-title-letter-spacing:var(--h2_typography-letter-spacing);--awb-caption-text-font-family:&quot;NeueKabel-Regular&quot;;--awb-caption-text-font-style:normal;--awb-caption-text-font-weight:400;\"><span class=\" fusion-imageframe imageframe-none imageframe-10 hover-type-none\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"819\" height=\"1024\" title=\"476388996_18178408216311923_8608923877927140887_n\" src=\"https:\/\/azimuthworldfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/476388996_18178408216311923_8608923877927140887_n.jpg\" data-orig-src=\"https:\/\/azimuthworldfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/476388996_18178408216311923_8608923877927140887_n-819x1024.jpg\" alt class=\"lazyload img-responsive wp-image-8544\" srcset=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%27%20width%3D%271080%27%20height%3D%271350%27%20viewBox%3D%270%200%201080%201350%27%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%271080%27%20height%3D%271350%27%20fill-opacity%3D%220%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/azimuthworldfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/476388996_18178408216311923_8608923877927140887_n-200x250.jpg 200w, https:\/\/azimuthworldfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/476388996_18178408216311923_8608923877927140887_n-400x500.jpg 400w, https:\/\/azimuthworldfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/476388996_18178408216311923_8608923877927140887_n-600x750.jpg 600w, https:\/\/azimuthworldfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/476388996_18178408216311923_8608923877927140887_n-800x1000.jpg 800w, https:\/\/azimuthworldfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/476388996_18178408216311923_8608923877927140887_n.jpg 1080w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-orig-sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 819px\" \/><\/span><div class=\"awb-imageframe-caption-container\" style=\"text-align:center;\"><div class=\"awb-imageframe-caption\"><h2 class=\"awb-imageframe-caption-title\">476388996_18178408216311923_8608923877927140887_n<\/h2><p class=\"awb-imageframe-caption-text\">A GNR acompanhou o processo de entrada for\u00e7ada nos terrenos atrav\u00e9s da servid\u00e3o administrativa | Cr\u00e9dito: Unidos em Defesa de Covas do Barroso<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-24 fusion-text-no-margin\" style=\"--awb-font-size:15px;--awb-margin-bottom:20px;--awb-text-font-family:&quot;NeueKabel-Black&quot;;--awb-text-font-style:normal;--awb-text-font-weight:400;\"><p>CATARINA ALVES SCARROTT<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-25 fusion-text-no-margin\" style=\"--awb-font-size:20px;--awb-margin-bottom:20px;--awb-text-font-family:&quot;NeueKabel-Regular&quot;;--awb-text-font-style:normal;--awb-text-font-weight:400;\"><p>As popula\u00e7\u00f5es aqui n\u00e3o aceitam o projeto. E, pelo menos por esse lado, n\u00e3o poderia nunca ser classificado como projeto estrat\u00e9gico. Tamb\u00e9m n\u00e3o poderia ser classificado como projeto estrat\u00e9gico, porque acreditamos que n\u00e3o \u00e9 um projeto que, em termos do ambiente, seja aceit\u00e1vel, que deveria ser aceit\u00e1vel. Mesmo que condicionada, nunca deveria ter recebido uma declara\u00e7\u00e3o de impacto ambiental. E nunca deveria ter progredido \u00e0 pr\u00f3xima etapa.<\/p>\n<p>Esta classifica\u00e7\u00e3o n\u00e3o foi feita de forma justa. N\u00f3s n\u00e3o sabemos que informa\u00e7\u00f5es \u00e9 que foram usadas. Se os crit\u00e9rios que tinham sido definidos foram ou n\u00e3o respeitados. E, portanto, a Uni\u00e3o Europeia tamb\u00e9m ir\u00e1 ser desafiada. J\u00e1 fizemos um request for internal review dessa classifica\u00e7\u00e3o. Vamos ficar \u00e0 espera. E depois, mediante a resposta que recebermos, poderemos recorrer ao Tribunal Europeu dos Direitos Humanos.<\/p>\n<p>Eu acho que as pol\u00edticas europeias precisam de ser redefinidas. Se estamos a falar numa crise, n\u00e3o pode ser \u201cbusiness as usual\u201d. As coisas t\u00eam que mudar. O consumo tem que mudar. E estamos a falar num capitalismo verde. \u00c9 uma transi\u00e7\u00e3o feita para as companhias de minera\u00e7\u00e3o, feita para a ind\u00fastria autom\u00f3vel. N\u00e3o \u00e9 feito para o futuro do planeta, n\u00e3o \u00e9 feito para n\u00f3s, n\u00e3o \u00e9 feito para o futuro das comunidades.<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-image-element awb-imageframe-style awb-imageframe-style-below awb-imageframe-style-11\" style=\"text-align:center;--awb-margin-bottom:20px;--awb-caption-text-color:var(--awb-color8);--awb-caption-text-size:15px;--awb-caption-title-font-family:var(--h2_typography-font-family);--awb-caption-title-font-weight:var(--h2_typography-font-weight);--awb-caption-title-font-style:var(--h2_typography-font-style);--awb-caption-title-size:var(--h2_typography-font-size);--awb-caption-title-transform:var(--h2_typography-text-transform);--awb-caption-title-line-height:var(--h2_typography-line-height);--awb-caption-title-letter-spacing:var(--h2_typography-letter-spacing);--awb-caption-text-font-family:&quot;NeueKabel-Regular&quot;;--awb-caption-text-font-style:normal;--awb-caption-text-font-weight:400;\"><span class=\" fusion-imageframe imageframe-none imageframe-11 hover-type-none\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"686\" title=\"46802653_368125580604255_6320235360374751232_n\" src=\"https:\/\/azimuthworldfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/46802653_368125580604255_6320235360374751232_n.jpg\" data-orig-src=\"https:\/\/azimuthworldfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/46802653_368125580604255_6320235360374751232_n-1024x686.jpg\" alt class=\"lazyload img-responsive wp-image-8546\" srcset=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%27%20width%3D%272048%27%20height%3D%271371%27%20viewBox%3D%270%200%202048%201371%27%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%272048%27%20height%3D%271371%27%20fill-opacity%3D%220%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/azimuthworldfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/46802653_368125580604255_6320235360374751232_n-200x134.jpg 200w, https:\/\/azimuthworldfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/46802653_368125580604255_6320235360374751232_n-400x268.jpg 400w, https:\/\/azimuthworldfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/46802653_368125580604255_6320235360374751232_n-600x402.jpg 600w, https:\/\/azimuthworldfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/46802653_368125580604255_6320235360374751232_n-800x536.jpg 800w, https:\/\/azimuthworldfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/46802653_368125580604255_6320235360374751232_n-1200x803.jpg 1200w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-orig-sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/span><div class=\"awb-imageframe-caption-container\" style=\"text-align:center;\"><div class=\"awb-imageframe-caption\"><h2 class=\"awb-imageframe-caption-title\">46802653_368125580604255_6320235360374751232_n<\/h2><p class=\"awb-imageframe-caption-text\">Os trabalhos da empresa de minera\u00e7\u00e3o t\u00eam prosseguido contra a vontade da popula\u00e7\u00e3o | Cr\u00e9dito: Unidos em Defesa de Covas do Barroso<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-separator fusion-full-width-sep\" style=\"align-self: center;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;margin-bottom:20px;width:100%;\"><div class=\"fusion-separator-border sep-single sep-solid\" style=\"--awb-height:20px;--awb-amount:20px;--awb-sep-color:var(--awb-color4);border-color:var(--awb-color4);border-top-width:5px;\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-26 fusion-text-no-margin\" style=\"--awb-font-size:15px;--awb-text-color:var(--awb-color4);--awb-margin-bottom:20px;--awb-text-font-family:&quot;NeueKabel-Regular&quot;;--awb-text-font-style:normal;--awb-text-font-weight:400;\"><p><em>Face a interesses econ\u00f3micos poderosos e estrat\u00e9gias de divis\u00e3o, a comunidade organizou-se. Nasceu a associa\u00e7\u00e3o Unidos em Defesa de Covas do Barroso &#8211; apartid\u00e1ria, baseada nos valores de solidariedade e respeito pela natureza que sempre definiram esta comunidade.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-separator fusion-full-width-sep\" style=\"align-self: center;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;margin-bottom:20px;width:100%;\"><div class=\"fusion-separator-border sep-single sep-solid\" style=\"--awb-height:20px;--awb-amount:20px;--awb-sep-color:var(--awb-color4);border-color:var(--awb-color4);border-top-width:5px;\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-27 fusion-text-no-margin\" style=\"--awb-font-size:15px;--awb-margin-bottom:20px;--awb-text-font-family:&quot;NeueKabel-Black&quot;;--awb-text-font-style:normal;--awb-text-font-weight:400;\"><p>CATARINA ALVES SCARROTT<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-28 fusion-text-no-margin\" style=\"--awb-font-size:20px;--awb-margin-bottom:20px;--awb-text-font-family:&quot;NeueKabel-Regular&quot;;--awb-text-font-style:normal;--awb-text-font-weight:400;\"><p>A associa\u00e7\u00e3o foi muito, muito importante, porque sem ela n\u00e3o ter\u00edamos uma voz unida. E tamb\u00e9m outra coisa que \u00e9 importante, que \u00e9 assim: n\u00e3o estamos ligados a nenhum partido pol\u00edtico. Foi a decis\u00e3o da comunidade, unir-se contra este projeto, e poder ter essa voz, independente de partidos pol\u00edticos, independente de outras influ\u00eancias.<\/p>\n<p>Na verdade, a associa\u00e7\u00e3o n\u00e3o poderia funcionar se n\u00e3o fosse dentro dos valores que a comunidade tem aqui. A solidariedade, a sustentabilidade, o respeito pela natureza, o respeito pelas pessoas.<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-image-element awb-imageframe-style awb-imageframe-style-below awb-imageframe-style-12\" style=\"text-align:center;--awb-margin-bottom:20px;--awb-caption-text-color:var(--awb-color8);--awb-caption-text-size:15px;--awb-caption-title-font-family:var(--h2_typography-font-family);--awb-caption-title-font-weight:var(--h2_typography-font-weight);--awb-caption-title-font-style:var(--h2_typography-font-style);--awb-caption-title-size:var(--h2_typography-font-size);--awb-caption-title-transform:var(--h2_typography-text-transform);--awb-caption-title-line-height:var(--h2_typography-line-height);--awb-caption-title-letter-spacing:var(--h2_typography-letter-spacing);--awb-caption-text-font-family:&quot;NeueKabel-Regular&quot;;--awb-caption-text-font-style:normal;--awb-caption-text-font-weight:400;\"><span class=\" fusion-imageframe imageframe-none imageframe-12 hover-type-none\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" title=\"Abril_DSC_8566\" src=\"https:\/\/azimuthworldfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Abril_DSC_8566-scaled.jpeg\" data-orig-src=\"https:\/\/azimuthworldfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Abril_DSC_8566-1024x683.jpeg\" alt class=\"lazyload img-responsive wp-image-8550\" srcset=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%27%20width%3D%272560%27%20height%3D%271707%27%20viewBox%3D%270%200%202560%201707%27%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%272560%27%20height%3D%271707%27%20fill-opacity%3D%220%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/azimuthworldfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Abril_DSC_8566-200x133.jpeg 200w, https:\/\/azimuthworldfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Abril_DSC_8566-400x267.jpeg 400w, https:\/\/azimuthworldfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Abril_DSC_8566-600x400.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/azimuthworldfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Abril_DSC_8566-800x533.jpeg 800w, https:\/\/azimuthworldfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Abril_DSC_8566-1200x800.jpeg 1200w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-orig-sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/span><div class=\"awb-imageframe-caption-container\" style=\"text-align:center;\"><div class=\"awb-imageframe-caption\"><h2 class=\"awb-imageframe-caption-title\">Abril_DSC_8566<\/h2><p class=\"awb-imageframe-caption-text\">Popula\u00e7\u00e3o de Covas do Barroso durante o acampamento de resist\u00eancia, ver\u00e3o de 2025 | Cr\u00e9dito: Abril<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-29 fusion-text-no-margin\" style=\"--awb-font-size:15px;--awb-margin-bottom:20px;--awb-text-font-family:&quot;NeueKabel-Black&quot;;--awb-text-font-style:normal;--awb-text-font-weight:400;\"><p>AIDA FERNANDES<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-30 fusion-text-no-margin\" style=\"--awb-font-size:20px;--awb-margin-bottom:20px;--awb-text-font-family:&quot;NeueKabel-Regular&quot;;--awb-text-font-style:normal;--awb-text-font-weight:400;\"><p>Para n\u00f3s \u00e9 tudo uma novidade, porque nunca t\u00ednhamos tido uma mina \u00e0 nossa porta. Nunca t\u00ednhamos lidado com interesses econ\u00f3micos t\u00e3o poderosos. Nunca t\u00ednhamos contestado nenhuma decis\u00e3o do Governo, at\u00e9 hoje.<\/p>\n<p>Neste momento, a favor temos as pessoas que est\u00e3o a ganhar dinheiro, ou que v\u00eaem a possibilidade de ter algum lucro. Porque o resto, quando se fala no projeto, as pessoas todas acham que n\u00e3o \u00e9 bom para a comunidade.<\/p>\n<p>Felizmente, n\u00f3s neste momento temos uma rede muito grande de amigos, a n\u00edvel mundial, e de pessoas que sabem o que se passa em lugares que j\u00e1 t\u00eam minas. E o que dizem \u00e9 que a estrat\u00e9gia \u00e9 sempre a mesma. \u00c9 dividir para reinar.<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-image-element awb-imageframe-style awb-imageframe-style-below awb-imageframe-style-13\" style=\"text-align:center;--awb-margin-bottom:20px;--awb-caption-text-color:var(--awb-color8);--awb-caption-text-size:15px;--awb-caption-title-font-family:var(--h2_typography-font-family);--awb-caption-title-font-weight:var(--h2_typography-font-weight);--awb-caption-title-font-style:var(--h2_typography-font-style);--awb-caption-title-size:var(--h2_typography-font-size);--awb-caption-title-transform:var(--h2_typography-text-transform);--awb-caption-title-line-height:var(--h2_typography-line-height);--awb-caption-title-letter-spacing:var(--h2_typography-letter-spacing);--awb-caption-text-font-family:&quot;NeueKabel-Regular&quot;;--awb-caption-text-font-style:normal;--awb-caption-text-font-weight:400;\"><span class=\" fusion-imageframe imageframe-none imageframe-13 hover-type-none\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" title=\"Abril_DSC_8589\" src=\"https:\/\/azimuthworldfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Abril_DSC_8589-scaled.jpeg\" data-orig-src=\"https:\/\/azimuthworldfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Abril_DSC_8589-1024x683.jpeg\" alt class=\"lazyload img-responsive wp-image-8552\" srcset=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%27%20width%3D%272560%27%20height%3D%271707%27%20viewBox%3D%270%200%202560%201707%27%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%272560%27%20height%3D%271707%27%20fill-opacity%3D%220%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/azimuthworldfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Abril_DSC_8589-200x133.jpeg 200w, https:\/\/azimuthworldfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Abril_DSC_8589-400x267.jpeg 400w, https:\/\/azimuthworldfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Abril_DSC_8589-600x400.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/azimuthworldfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Abril_DSC_8589-800x533.jpeg 800w, https:\/\/azimuthworldfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Abril_DSC_8589-1200x800.jpeg 1200w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-orig-sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/span><div class=\"awb-imageframe-caption-container\" style=\"text-align:center;\"><div class=\"awb-imageframe-caption\"><h2 class=\"awb-imageframe-caption-title\">Abril_DSC_8589<\/h2><p class=\"awb-imageframe-caption-text\">Carlos Libo, agricultor local e membro da UDCB, durante o acampamento de resist\u00eancia, ver\u00e3o de 2025 | Cr\u00e9dito: Abril<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-separator fusion-full-width-sep\" style=\"align-self: center;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;margin-bottom:20px;width:100%;\"><div class=\"fusion-separator-border sep-single sep-solid\" style=\"--awb-height:20px;--awb-amount:20px;--awb-sep-color:var(--awb-color4);border-color:var(--awb-color4);border-top-width:5px;\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-31 fusion-text-no-margin\" style=\"--awb-font-size:15px;--awb-text-color:var(--awb-color4);--awb-margin-bottom:20px;--awb-text-font-family:&quot;NeueKabel-Regular&quot;;--awb-text-font-style:normal;--awb-text-font-weight:400;\"><p><em>Mas afinal, para que serve esta corrida ao l\u00edtio? A Uni\u00e3o Europeia diz precisar de 60 vezes mais l\u00edtio at\u00e9 2050. Mas ser\u00e1 esta a \u00fanica equa\u00e7\u00e3o poss\u00edvel para enfrentar a crise clim\u00e1tica?<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-separator fusion-full-width-sep\" style=\"align-self: center;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;margin-bottom:20px;width:100%;\"><div class=\"fusion-separator-border sep-single sep-solid\" style=\"--awb-height:20px;--awb-amount:20px;--awb-sep-color:var(--awb-color4);border-color:var(--awb-color4);border-top-width:5px;\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-32 fusion-text-no-margin\" style=\"--awb-font-size:15px;--awb-margin-bottom:20px;--awb-text-font-family:&quot;NeueKabel-Black&quot;;--awb-text-font-style:normal;--awb-text-font-weight:400;\"><p>CATARINA ALVES SCARROTT<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-33 fusion-text-no-margin\" style=\"--awb-font-size:20px;--awb-margin-bottom:20px;--awb-text-font-family:&quot;NeueKabel-Regular&quot;;--awb-text-font-style:normal;--awb-text-font-weight:400;\"><p>Quando descobrimos que o projeto ia acontecer aqui, a primeira coisa que pergunt\u00e1mos foi: \u201cMas porqu\u00ea n\u00f3s? Porque \u00e9 que nos v\u00e3o sacrificar a n\u00f3s?\u201d E depois, \u00e0 medida que fomos entendendo o projeto, a pergunta que pergunt\u00e1mos \u00e9: \u201cPara qu\u00ea?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Porque dizemos c\u00e1 tamb\u00e9m que quem gasta, que quem n\u00e3o poupa terra e lenha, n\u00e3o poupa coisa que tenha. A explora\u00e7\u00e3o n\u00e3o faz sentido. Porque \u00e9 baseada num crit\u00e9rio de \u201cbusiness as usual\u201d. Tudo continua como est\u00e1. Continuamos a consumir da mesma forma. E isso vai contra os valores que a comunidade tem.<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-image-element awb-imageframe-style awb-imageframe-style-below awb-imageframe-style-14\" style=\"text-align:center;--awb-margin-bottom:20px;--awb-caption-text-color:var(--awb-color8);--awb-caption-text-size:15px;--awb-caption-title-font-family:var(--h2_typography-font-family);--awb-caption-title-font-weight:var(--h2_typography-font-weight);--awb-caption-title-font-style:var(--h2_typography-font-style);--awb-caption-title-size:var(--h2_typography-font-size);--awb-caption-title-transform:var(--h2_typography-text-transform);--awb-caption-title-line-height:var(--h2_typography-line-height);--awb-caption-title-letter-spacing:var(--h2_typography-letter-spacing);--awb-caption-text-font-family:&quot;NeueKabel-Regular&quot;;--awb-caption-text-font-style:normal;--awb-caption-text-font-weight:400;\"><span class=\" fusion-imageframe imageframe-none imageframe-14 hover-type-none\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" title=\"Abril_DSC_8525\" src=\"https:\/\/azimuthworldfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Abril_DSC_8525-scaled.jpeg\" data-orig-src=\"https:\/\/azimuthworldfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Abril_DSC_8525-1024x683.jpeg\" alt class=\"lazyload img-responsive wp-image-8554\" srcset=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%27%20width%3D%272560%27%20height%3D%271707%27%20viewBox%3D%270%200%202560%201707%27%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%272560%27%20height%3D%271707%27%20fill-opacity%3D%220%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/azimuthworldfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Abril_DSC_8525-200x133.jpeg 200w, https:\/\/azimuthworldfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Abril_DSC_8525-400x267.jpeg 400w, https:\/\/azimuthworldfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Abril_DSC_8525-600x400.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/azimuthworldfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Abril_DSC_8525-800x533.jpeg 800w, https:\/\/azimuthworldfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Abril_DSC_8525-1200x800.jpeg 1200w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-orig-sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/span><div class=\"awb-imageframe-caption-container\" style=\"text-align:center;\"><div class=\"awb-imageframe-caption\"><h2 class=\"awb-imageframe-caption-title\">Abril_DSC_8525<\/h2><p class=\"awb-imageframe-caption-text\">Rio Covas | Cr\u00e9dito: Abril<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-34 fusion-text-no-margin\" style=\"--awb-font-size:15px;--awb-margin-bottom:20px;--awb-text-font-family:&quot;NeueKabel-Black&quot;;--awb-text-font-style:normal;--awb-text-font-weight:400;\"><p>MARIANA RIQUITO<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-35 fusion-text-no-margin\" style=\"--awb-font-size:20px;--awb-margin-bottom:20px;--awb-text-font-family:&quot;NeueKabel-Regular&quot;;--awb-text-font-style:normal;--awb-text-font-weight:400;\"><p>E quando n\u00f3s vamos ver as estimativas de procura de l\u00edtio, elas respondem, na verdade, a vontades que sust\u00eam ind\u00fastrias, como a ind\u00fastria autom\u00f3vel, ou a ind\u00fastria mineira ou a ind\u00fastria do armamento.<\/p>\n<p>Isso significa que, quando a Uni\u00e3o Europeia diz, \u201cprecisamos de 60 vezes mais l\u00edtio at\u00e9 2050\u201d, e diz que isto \u00e9 altamente urgente, \u00e9 porque o que est\u00e1 a pensar \u00e9, neste caso, substituir a frota de autom\u00f3veis por autom\u00f3veis el\u00e9tricos.<\/p>\n<p>Se a equa\u00e7\u00e3o fosse: \u201cOK, vamos aqui apostar na ferrovia e nos transportes p\u00fablicos. Vamos reduzir no armamento. Vamos reduzir em ind\u00fastrias como a fast fashion. Vamos acabar com a obsolesc\u00eancia programada. Vamos construir coisas que sejam feitas para durar. Vamos reciclar os materiais e minerais que j\u00e1 temos.\u201d Se o in\u00edcio da equa\u00e7\u00e3o fosse este, obviamente a necessidade de l\u00edtio iria reduzir drasticamente, e h\u00e1 imensos estudos feitos tamb\u00e9m sobre isso mesmo.<\/p>\n<p>E, se calhar, podemos redefinir as nossas necessidades, e redefinir as nossas prioridades. E se calhar, a necessidade podia ser: \u201cOK. Vamos manter daqui at\u00e9 2050, e para sempre, os nossos rios limpos, as nossas florestas vivas, as nossas comunidades com pessoas.\u201d E se essa for a prioridade, e se essa for a necessidade, ent\u00e3o o in\u00edcio da equa\u00e7\u00e3o vai ser completamente diferente.<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-image-element awb-imageframe-style awb-imageframe-style-below awb-imageframe-style-15\" style=\"text-align:center;--awb-margin-bottom:20px;--awb-caption-text-color:var(--awb-color8);--awb-caption-text-size:15px;--awb-caption-title-font-family:var(--h2_typography-font-family);--awb-caption-title-font-weight:var(--h2_typography-font-weight);--awb-caption-title-font-style:var(--h2_typography-font-style);--awb-caption-title-size:var(--h2_typography-font-size);--awb-caption-title-transform:var(--h2_typography-text-transform);--awb-caption-title-line-height:var(--h2_typography-line-height);--awb-caption-title-letter-spacing:var(--h2_typography-letter-spacing);--awb-caption-text-font-family:&quot;NeueKabel-Regular&quot;;--awb-caption-text-font-style:normal;--awb-caption-text-font-weight:400;\"><span class=\" fusion-imageframe imageframe-none imageframe-15 hover-type-none\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" title=\"Abril_DSC_8550\" src=\"https:\/\/azimuthworldfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Abril_DSC_8550-scaled.jpeg\" data-orig-src=\"https:\/\/azimuthworldfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Abril_DSC_8550-1024x683.jpeg\" alt class=\"lazyload img-responsive wp-image-8556\" srcset=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%27%20width%3D%272560%27%20height%3D%271707%27%20viewBox%3D%270%200%202560%201707%27%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%272560%27%20height%3D%271707%27%20fill-opacity%3D%220%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/azimuthworldfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Abril_DSC_8550-200x133.jpeg 200w, https:\/\/azimuthworldfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Abril_DSC_8550-400x267.jpeg 400w, https:\/\/azimuthworldfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Abril_DSC_8550-600x400.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/azimuthworldfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Abril_DSC_8550-800x533.jpeg 800w, https:\/\/azimuthworldfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Abril_DSC_8550-1200x800.jpeg 1200w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-orig-sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/span><div class=\"awb-imageframe-caption-container\" style=\"text-align:center;\"><div class=\"awb-imageframe-caption\"><h2 class=\"awb-imageframe-caption-title\">Abril_DSC_8550<\/h2><p class=\"awb-imageframe-caption-text\">Floresta em redor da aldeia de Covas do Barroso | Cr\u00e9dito: Abril<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-36 fusion-text-no-margin\" style=\"--awb-font-size:20px;--awb-margin-bottom:20px;--awb-text-font-family:&quot;NeueKabel-Regular&quot;;--awb-text-font-style:normal;--awb-text-font-weight:400;\"><p>E acho que \u00e9, sem d\u00favida, muito importante fazer uma transi\u00e7\u00e3o. Que eu n\u00e3o gosto de dizer que \u00e9 transi\u00e7\u00e3o. Acho que \u00e9 transforma\u00e7\u00e3o, e que vai muito, muito al\u00e9m de s\u00f3 mudar a fonte de energia, ou mudar uma componente de armazenamento de energia. Ela tem, de facto, de ser uma transforma\u00e7\u00e3o hol\u00edstica e integrada da forma como nos movimentamos. Do que comemos, de onde \u00e9 que vem aquilo comemos. Aquilo que vestimos, de onde \u00e9 que vem? Como \u00e9 que nos relacionamos uns com os outros?<\/p>\n<p>E acho que em territ\u00f3rios como em Covas podemos aprender com estas comunidades sobre outras formas de, de facto, nos relacionarmos com o meio envolvente, que n\u00e3o seja s\u00f3 esta infind\u00e1vel marcha de extrair mais para produzir mais, para termos novos carros, novos telem\u00f3veis, novas roupas, novos\u2026 Sempre mais, mais, mais, mais, mais.<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-image-element awb-imageframe-style awb-imageframe-style-below awb-imageframe-style-16\" style=\"text-align:center;--awb-margin-bottom:20px;--awb-caption-text-color:var(--awb-color8);--awb-caption-text-size:15px;--awb-caption-title-font-family:var(--h2_typography-font-family);--awb-caption-title-font-weight:var(--h2_typography-font-weight);--awb-caption-title-font-style:var(--h2_typography-font-style);--awb-caption-title-size:var(--h2_typography-font-size);--awb-caption-title-transform:var(--h2_typography-text-transform);--awb-caption-title-line-height:var(--h2_typography-line-height);--awb-caption-title-letter-spacing:var(--h2_typography-letter-spacing);--awb-caption-text-font-family:&quot;NeueKabel-Regular&quot;;--awb-caption-text-font-style:normal;--awb-caption-text-font-weight:400;\"><span class=\" fusion-imageframe imageframe-none imageframe-16 hover-type-none\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" title=\"142943922_931841660899308_4207421576055721755_n\" src=\"https:\/\/azimuthworldfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/142943922_931841660899308_4207421576055721755_n.jpg\" data-orig-src=\"https:\/\/azimuthworldfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/142943922_931841660899308_4207421576055721755_n-1024x683.jpg\" alt class=\"lazyload img-responsive wp-image-8558\" srcset=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%27%20width%3D%271944%27%20height%3D%271296%27%20viewBox%3D%270%200%201944%201296%27%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%271944%27%20height%3D%271296%27%20fill-opacity%3D%220%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/azimuthworldfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/142943922_931841660899308_4207421576055721755_n-200x133.jpg 200w, https:\/\/azimuthworldfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/142943922_931841660899308_4207421576055721755_n-400x267.jpg 400w, https:\/\/azimuthworldfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/142943922_931841660899308_4207421576055721755_n-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/azimuthworldfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/142943922_931841660899308_4207421576055721755_n-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/azimuthworldfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/142943922_931841660899308_4207421576055721755_n-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-orig-sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/span><div class=\"awb-imageframe-caption-container\" style=\"text-align:center;\"><div class=\"awb-imageframe-caption\"><h2 class=\"awb-imageframe-caption-title\">142943922_931841660899308_4207421576055721755_n<\/h2><p class=\"awb-imageframe-caption-text\">Cr\u00e9dito: Unidos em Defesa de Covas do Barroso<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-separator fusion-full-width-sep\" style=\"align-self: center;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;margin-bottom:20px;width:100%;\"><div class=\"fusion-separator-border sep-single sep-solid\" style=\"--awb-height:20px;--awb-amount:20px;--awb-sep-color:var(--awb-color4);border-color:var(--awb-color4);border-top-width:5px;\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-37 fusion-text-no-margin\" style=\"--awb-font-size:15px;--awb-text-color:var(--awb-color4);--awb-margin-bottom:20px;--awb-text-font-family:&quot;NeueKabel-Regular&quot;;--awb-text-font-style:normal;--awb-text-font-weight:400;\"><p><em>A batalha de Covas do Barroso n\u00e3o \u00e9 isolada. \u00c9 sobre o modelo de desenvolvimento que queremos, sobre que futuro imaginamos. Como podemos apoiar esta e outras lutas semelhantes? Como podemos dizer n\u00e3o \u00e0 mina, e sim \u00e0 vida?<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-separator fusion-full-width-sep\" style=\"align-self: center;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;margin-bottom:20px;width:100%;\"><div class=\"fusion-separator-border sep-single sep-solid\" style=\"--awb-height:20px;--awb-amount:20px;--awb-sep-color:var(--awb-color4);border-color:var(--awb-color4);border-top-width:5px;\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-38 fusion-text-no-margin\" style=\"--awb-font-size:15px;--awb-margin-bottom:20px;--awb-text-font-family:&quot;NeueKabel-Black&quot;;--awb-text-font-style:normal;--awb-text-font-weight:400;\"><p>MARIANA RIQUITO<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-39 fusion-text-no-margin\" style=\"--awb-font-size:20px;--awb-margin-bottom:20px;--awb-text-font-family:&quot;NeueKabel-Regular&quot;;--awb-text-font-style:normal;--awb-text-font-weight:400;\"><p>Eu acho que h\u00e1 v\u00e1rias coisas que podem ser feitas, mesmo para quem n\u00e3o est\u00e1 em Covas. Quem estiver em Portugal, obviamente acho que \u00e9 importante apoiar este movimento, e trazer este movimento para as cidades, organizando conversas, organizando palestras, organizando angaria\u00e7\u00f5es de fundos ou dando donativos para as comunidades locais, para a associa\u00e7\u00e3o local.<\/p>\n<p>Porque, obviamente, isto n\u00e3o \u00e9 um problema isolado. H\u00e1 estudos que demonstram que, se a mina for para a frente, que n\u00e3o vai, mas levaria a uma falha catastr\u00f3fica da barragem de rejeitados, e os rejeitados iriam at\u00e9 ao rio Douro e, portanto, at\u00e9 ao Oceano Atl\u00e2ntico. Ou seja, afetaria toda esta bacia hidrogr\u00e1fica, aqui do Norte de Portugal. E, portanto, obviamente, por essa quest\u00e3o, este n\u00e3o \u00e9 um problema s\u00f3 isolado de Covas. Mas n\u00e3o \u00e9 s\u00f3 um problema isolado de Covas, porque abrir minas aqui implicaria, ent\u00e3o, abrir minas em muitos outros lugares e abriria um precedente brutal.<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-image-element awb-imageframe-style awb-imageframe-style-below awb-imageframe-style-17\" style=\"text-align:center;--awb-margin-bottom:20px;--awb-caption-text-color:var(--awb-color8);--awb-caption-text-size:15px;--awb-caption-title-font-family:var(--h2_typography-font-family);--awb-caption-title-font-weight:var(--h2_typography-font-weight);--awb-caption-title-font-style:var(--h2_typography-font-style);--awb-caption-title-size:var(--h2_typography-font-size);--awb-caption-title-transform:var(--h2_typography-text-transform);--awb-caption-title-line-height:var(--h2_typography-line-height);--awb-caption-title-letter-spacing:var(--h2_typography-letter-spacing);--awb-caption-text-font-family:&quot;NeueKabel-Regular&quot;;--awb-caption-text-font-style:normal;--awb-caption-text-font-weight:400;\"><span class=\" fusion-imageframe imageframe-none imageframe-17 hover-type-none\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" title=\"Abril_DSC_8577\" src=\"https:\/\/azimuthworldfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Abril_DSC_8577-scaled.jpeg\" data-orig-src=\"https:\/\/azimuthworldfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Abril_DSC_8577-1024x683.jpeg\" alt class=\"lazyload img-responsive wp-image-8560\" srcset=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%27%20width%3D%272560%27%20height%3D%271707%27%20viewBox%3D%270%200%202560%201707%27%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%272560%27%20height%3D%271707%27%20fill-opacity%3D%220%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/azimuthworldfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Abril_DSC_8577-200x133.jpeg 200w, https:\/\/azimuthworldfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Abril_DSC_8577-400x267.jpeg 400w, https:\/\/azimuthworldfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Abril_DSC_8577-600x400.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/azimuthworldfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Abril_DSC_8577-800x533.jpeg 800w, https:\/\/azimuthworldfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Abril_DSC_8577-1200x800.jpeg 1200w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-orig-sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/span><div class=\"awb-imageframe-caption-container\" style=\"text-align:center;\"><div class=\"awb-imageframe-caption\"><h2 class=\"awb-imageframe-caption-title\">Abril_DSC_8577<\/h2><p class=\"awb-imageframe-caption-text\">Protesto durante o acampamento de resist\u00eancia, ver\u00e3o de 2025 | Cr\u00e9dito: Abril<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-40 fusion-text-no-margin\" style=\"--awb-font-size:20px;--awb-margin-bottom:20px;--awb-text-font-family:&quot;NeueKabel-Regular&quot;;--awb-text-font-style:normal;--awb-text-font-weight:400;\"><p>E, depois, algo muito importante \u00e9 mesmo batalharmos sempre esta narrativa pol\u00edtica que nos querem vender, de que o mundo tem que ser assim, e a transi\u00e7\u00e3o tem que ser assim e tem que ser assim. Porque n\u00e3o tem que ser assim. E h\u00e1 muitas outras formas de ser e h\u00e1 muitas outras formas de viver. E n\u00e3o temos que repetir exatamente os mesmos erros, os mesmos padr\u00f5es de consumo, de produ\u00e7\u00e3o, de viv\u00eancia.<\/p>\n<p>E, ent\u00e3o, \u00e9 importante mostrarmos que pode ser de outra forma. E o \u201cN\u00e3o \u00e0 mina\u201d \u00e9 tamb\u00e9m isso. \u00c9, tamb\u00e9m, dizer que as coisas podem ser de outra forma. O futuro n\u00e3o tem que ser mais minas em todo o lado. O futuro pode ser comunidades que vivam da sua floresta, junto com os seus rios, com os seus vizinhos, com os seus familiares.<\/p>\n<p>Para quem est\u00e1 no resto do mundo, \u00e9 exatamente a mesma coisa. Ou seja, visibilizar esta luta, dar apoio a esta luta. Seja, l\u00e1 est\u00e1, \u00e0 dist\u00e2ncia, financeiramente. Ou \u00e0 dist\u00e2ncia, batalhando nestas narrativas.<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-image-element awb-imageframe-style awb-imageframe-style-below awb-imageframe-style-18\" style=\"text-align:center;--awb-margin-bottom:20px;--awb-caption-text-color:var(--awb-color8);--awb-caption-text-size:15px;--awb-caption-title-font-family:var(--h2_typography-font-family);--awb-caption-title-font-weight:var(--h2_typography-font-weight);--awb-caption-title-font-style:var(--h2_typography-font-style);--awb-caption-title-size:var(--h2_typography-font-size);--awb-caption-title-transform:var(--h2_typography-text-transform);--awb-caption-title-line-height:var(--h2_typography-line-height);--awb-caption-title-letter-spacing:var(--h2_typography-letter-spacing);--awb-caption-text-font-family:&quot;NeueKabel-Regular&quot;;--awb-caption-text-font-style:normal;--awb-caption-text-font-weight:400;\"><span class=\" fusion-imageframe imageframe-none imageframe-18 hover-type-none\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" title=\"Abril_DSC_8614\" src=\"https:\/\/azimuthworldfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Abril_DSC_8614-scaled.jpeg\" data-orig-src=\"https:\/\/azimuthworldfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Abril_DSC_8614-1024x683.jpeg\" alt class=\"lazyload img-responsive wp-image-8562\" srcset=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%27%20width%3D%272560%27%20height%3D%271707%27%20viewBox%3D%270%200%202560%201707%27%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%272560%27%20height%3D%271707%27%20fill-opacity%3D%220%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/azimuthworldfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Abril_DSC_8614-200x133.jpeg 200w, https:\/\/azimuthworldfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Abril_DSC_8614-400x267.jpeg 400w, https:\/\/azimuthworldfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Abril_DSC_8614-600x400.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/azimuthworldfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Abril_DSC_8614-800x533.jpeg 800w, https:\/\/azimuthworldfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Abril_DSC_8614-1200x800.jpeg 1200w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-orig-sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/span><div class=\"awb-imageframe-caption-container\" style=\"text-align:center;\"><div class=\"awb-imageframe-caption\"><h2 class=\"awb-imageframe-caption-title\">Abril_DSC_8614<\/h2><p class=\"awb-imageframe-caption-text\">Protesto durante o acampamento de resist\u00eancia, ver\u00e3o de 2025 | Cr\u00e9dito: Abril<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-41 fusion-text-no-margin\" style=\"--awb-font-size:15px;--awb-margin-bottom:20px;--awb-text-font-family:&quot;NeueKabel-Black&quot;;--awb-text-font-style:normal;--awb-text-font-weight:400;\"><p>AIDA FERNANDES<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-42 fusion-text-no-margin\" style=\"--awb-font-size:20px;--awb-margin-bottom:20px;--awb-text-font-family:&quot;NeueKabel-Regular&quot;;--awb-text-font-style:normal;--awb-text-font-weight:400;\"><p>Acho que a Mariana j\u00e1 disse tudo o que n\u00f3s precisamos. Mas tamb\u00e9m precisamos, acima de tudo, de pessoas que tenham disponibilidade para vir a Covas. Nem que seja s\u00f3 para um abra\u00e7o, porque h\u00e1 dias que precisamos muito.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-43 fusion-text-no-margin\" style=\"--awb-font-size:15px;--awb-margin-bottom:20px;--awb-text-font-family:&quot;NeueKabel-Black&quot;;--awb-text-font-style:normal;--awb-text-font-weight:400;\"><p>CATARINA ALVES SCARROTT<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-44 fusion-text-no-margin\" style=\"--awb-font-size:20px;--awb-margin-bottom:20px;--awb-text-font-family:&quot;NeueKabel-Regular&quot;;--awb-text-font-style:normal;--awb-text-font-weight:400;\"><p>\u00c9 a batalha do David contra Golias. Somos \u201cordinary people in an extraordinary situation\u201d. Estamos a lutar contra profissionais, a especula\u00e7\u00e3o financeira e as minas. N\u00f3s n\u00e3o somos profissionais. N\u00f3s somos pessoas normais, com empregos, que n\u00e3o sab\u00edamos nada sobre minas, que vamos aprendendo pouco a pouco. E assim enfrentamos estas dificuldades, enfrentamos propaganda.<\/p>\n<p>E \u00e9 muito dif\u00edcil \u00e0s vezes n\u00f3s passarmos a mensagem l\u00e1 para fora. E \u00e9 muito dif\u00edcil para n\u00f3s mostrar a realidade dos factos, porque estamos aqui, somos poucos, e estamos a lutar contra todas estas coisas.<\/p>\n<p>E, portanto, \u00e9 muito importante que outras pessoas venham c\u00e1 ver, e nos ajudem a passar a mensagem l\u00e1 para fora, daquilo que se est\u00e1 a passar. E nos ajudem a combater essa narrativa e essa incurs\u00e3o, essa intrus\u00e3o, essa repress\u00e3o que n\u00f3s sofremos aqui. Porque nos afeta muit\u00edssimo.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-2 fusion-flex-container nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"max-width:1248px;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-1 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-blend:overlay;--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:1.92%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:0px;--awb-spacing-left-large:1.92%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-separator fusion-full-width-sep\" style=\"align-self: center;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;margin-bottom:20px;width:100%;\" id=\"PODCAST\"><div class=\"fusion-separator-border sep-double sep-solid\" style=\"--awb-height:20px;--awb-amount:20px;--awb-sep-color:var(--awb-color4);border-color:var(--awb-color4);border-top-width:10px;border-bottom-width:10px;\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-45 fusion-text-no-margin\" style=\"--awb-font-size:20px;--awb-text-color:var(--awb-color4);--awb-margin-bottom:20px;--awb-text-font-family:&quot;NeueKabel-Black&quot;;--awb-text-font-style:normal;--awb-text-font-weight:400;\"><p>DIZ N\u00c3O \u00c0 MINA, SIM \u00c0 VIDA. APOIA A UNIDOS EM DEFESA DE COVAS DO BARROSO:<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-46 fusion-text-no-margin\" style=\"--awb-content-alignment:center;--awb-font-size:15px;--awb-text-color:var(--awb-color4);--awb-text-font-family:&quot;NeueKabel-Regular&quot;;--awb-text-font-style:normal;--awb-text-font-weight:400;\"><p>Link Externo<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-47 fusion-text-no-margin\" style=\"--awb-margin-bottom:20px;\"><div class=\"vlp-link-container vlp-layout-azimuth-2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/udcb.pt\" class=\"vlp-link\" title=\"UDCB - Unidos em Defesa de Covas do Barroso\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><div class=\"vlp-layout-zone-side\"><div class=\"vlp-block-3 vlp-link-image\"><img class=\"lazyload\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-orig-src=\"https:\/\/udcb.pt\/img\/logo.png\" style=\"max-width: 150px; max-height: 150px\" \/><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vlp-layout-zone-main\"><h3 class=\"vlp-block-0 vlp-link-title\">UDCB - Unidos em Defesa de Covas do Barroso<\/h3><div class=\"vlp-block-1 vlp-link-summary\">Levanta a cabe\u00e7a Tira os olhos do ch\u00e3o Se a vontade esmorece Sacode-a com um aban\u00e3o<\/div><div class=\"vlp-block-2 vlp-link-url\">https:\/\/udcb.pt<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-48 fusion-text-no-margin\" style=\"--awb-font-size:15px;--awb-margin-bottom:20px;--awb-text-font-family:&quot;NeueKabel-Regular&quot;;--awb-text-font-style:normal;--awb-text-font-weight:400;\"><p><em>A Azimuth World Foundation n\u00e3o angaria fundos para si pr\u00f3pria ou para os seus parceiros, nem recebe donativos. 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