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Imam Shofwan, an environmental campaigner from an organisation called Jatam, based in Jakarta, told BBC News: "They say nickel is a solution to the climate crisis. But it's causing deforestation and destroying farmland."

Many tractors and trucks sat idle surrounded by acres of farmland, as an unknown number of workers chose to stay home.

In 2021 a Dutch court ordered Shell to compensate farmers for spills that contaminated swathes of farmland and fishing waters in the Niger Delta.

Most private farmland is still owned by white people.

The Essex Boys killings, as they became known, were carried out on a snowy December morning on isolated farmland near Chelmsford.