2024 Serbian environmental protests

2024 Serbian environmental protests
Date	July 29, 2024 (2024-07-29)–ongoing
Location	Šabac, Barajevo, Kraljevo, Ljig, and Aranđelovac in Serbia
Caused by	Reinstatement of Rio Tinto's mining licence, European Union access deal to Serbian raw materials
Goals	Permanent halt to all mining operations in Jadar
Methods	Demonstrations
Parties
Anti-government protesters Citizens Environmental activists Nationalists Serbian orthodox church factions Opposition parties Party of Freedom and Justice People's Movement of Serbia Green–Left Front Serbia Centre Democratic Party Ecological Uprising Movement of Free Citizens Movement for Reversal Together People's Party Union of ecological organisations of Serbia "We don't give Jadar" movement Kreni-promeni Eko-straža People's patrol "Moba" movement Valjevo resistance movement Government of Serbia Serbian Progressive Party Socialist Party of Serbia Serbia Must Not Stop coalition Police of Serbia Pro-government activists Support: European Union
Lead figures
Aleksandar Jovanović Ćuta Ratko Ristić Aleksandar Vučić
Number
Thousands

In July 2024, a series of environmental protests began in Serbia against the Jadar mine, a European Union–backed and Serbian government-approved lithium mining project. The project was proposed by Anglo-Australian Rio Tinto to develop Europe's largest lithium mine in the West Serbian region of Jadar, causing significant backlash due to its potential environmental damage and exploitation of the local population for economic and geopolitical gain.^[1]