The environmental leader Carola Acum remembers the scene as if not a single day had passed: the row of green trunks bathed in the morning sun and sea mist. On the other side of the fences separating protesters from police, yellow machinery was cutting down dozens of trees, seemingly immune to the cries of those present. It was March 2025, and the government was paving the way to fill the coastline of this town in the western region with concrete and asphalt.