Here is la colibri (the hummingbird) in its original state. It should be noted that walking on the Nazca lines is strictly forbidden, and when permission is given it is done under close supervision wearing special shoes.
Here is Greenpeace’s stupid banner with the idiots who set it up.
This distant shot shows where they walked while setting it up.
At the left you can see the path they wore setting it up.
This photo shows the damage done by the erection and removal of the banner outlined in red. It was removed by Greenpeace.
Peru is furious, to say the least:
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/peru-indignant-greenpeace-stunt-nazca-lines-27488218
Peru will seek criminal charges against Greenpeace activists who damaged the world-renowned Nazca lines by leaving footprints in the adjacent desert during a publicity stunt, a senior government official said Tuesday.
“It’s a true slap in the face at everything Peruvians consider sacred,” Deputy Culture Minister Luis Jaime Castillo said of Monday’s action by the environmental group at the famed drawings etched into Peru’s coastal desert, a U.N. World Heritage site.
He said the government was seeking to prevent those responsible from leaving the country while it asks prosecutors to file charges of “attacking archaeological monuments,” a crime punishable by up to six years in prison.
The activists entered a “strictly prohibited” area beside the famed figure of a hummingbird, the Culture Ministry said in a statement. They laid big yellow cloth letters reading: “Time for Change; The Future is Renewable.”
The message was intended for delegates from 190 countries at the U.N. climate talks being held in nearby Lima.
Castillo said no one, not even presidents and Cabinet ministers, is allowed without authorization where the activists trod, and those who do have permission must wear special shoes.
The Nazca lines are huge figures depicting living creatures, stylized plants and imaginary figures scratched on the surface of the ground between 1,500 and 2,000 years ago. They are believed to have had ritual astronomical functions.
“They are absolutely fragile. They are black rocks on a white background. You walk there and the footprint is going to last hundreds or thousands of years,” Castillo said. “And the line that they have destroyed is the most visible and most recognized of all.”


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I don’t think that “it is a stupid banner” but that the banner is in a completely inappropriate place. Even Greenpeace makes mistakes sometimes and this has got to be one of their worst as they themselves have conceded.
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Total dis-respect by STUPID activists = stupid sign.
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If that’s what you want to think Bill then that’s your prerogative…
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I don’t think that it is “a stupid banner” but that it is in a totally inappropriate place. Even Greenpeace makes mistakes and this has got to be one of their worst, as they themselves have conceded.
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