Members
of the environmental activist group Greenpeace face criminal and civil
charges in Peru for leaving their own footprints on one of the country’s
historical monuments while calling for lower carbon footprints, PBS NewsHour reported.
The group has faced criticism since releasing footage of 12 members walking onto the site of the 1,500-year-old Nazca lines geoglyphs last week. They were shown laying down cloth letters that, from a height, spelled out, “Time for change, the future is renewable.”
The display was a message to officials at a conference in Lima, about 260 miles away, concerning carbon emissions limits. Nearly 200 countries were represented at the conference.
The site is off-limit to visitors, and researchers entering the area are required to wear specially-designed shoes that will minimize the potential damage to the geoglyphs, which are believed to have been created between 500 B.C. and 500 A.D, and are believed to have a religious significance. Officials say overhead footage shows footprints and overturned rocks as a result of Greenpeace’s encroachment.
The group members who took part in the protest are believed to have left the country. The New York Times reported that a judge refused prosecutors’ request to detain them.
READ MORE:http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/12/peru-rejects-greenpeace-apology-for-damaging-1500-year-old-site-in-childish-protest-stunt/
The group has faced criticism since releasing footage of 12 members walking onto the site of the 1,500-year-old Nazca lines geoglyphs last week. They were shown laying down cloth letters that, from a height, spelled out, “Time for change, the future is renewable.”
The display was a message to officials at a conference in Lima, about 260 miles away, concerning carbon emissions limits. Nearly 200 countries were represented at the conference.
The site is off-limit to visitors, and researchers entering the area are required to wear specially-designed shoes that will minimize the potential damage to the geoglyphs, which are believed to have been created between 500 B.C. and 500 A.D, and are believed to have a religious significance. Officials say overhead footage shows footprints and overturned rocks as a result of Greenpeace’s encroachment.
The group members who took part in the protest are believed to have left the country. The New York Times reported that a judge refused prosecutors’ request to detain them.
READ MORE:http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/12/peru-rejects-greenpeace-apology-for-damaging-1500-year-old-site-in-childish-protest-stunt/
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