YRE Photo Reportage (of 3–5 photos) 11–25 years old: 2nd Place

MINING: A SCAR ON THE PLANET (Portugal)

Currently, large green mountains begin to be an increasingly natural landscape. The result of extensive exploration, create a series of consequences both at landscape and social level. As the extraction of minerals is usually carried out in places far from inhabited areas, few people realize its impressive environmental impacts.

Mountain clearing with alteration of the natural landscape.

The sludge deposit for the treatment of rock material is confined to spaces that can raise series of environmental issues.

A business without restrictions?

The advancement of mining in the face of the need and demand for man and society.

Reflection of a mountain already shattered, on the screen of the phone, in contrast with the opposite side, still intact.