Climate protesters from Just Stop Oil sprayed orange paint on ancient Stonehenge in southern England. Two protesters were arrested in what Prime Minister Rishi Sunak called a “disgraceful act of vandalism.”
Just Stop Oil is an international group that has spray painted other things orange, like private airplanes and public buildings. The group says the pigment is made of corn flour and will wash away in the rain. As its name indicates, it wants an immediate end to all oil, gas, and coal production.
Stonehenge is a 5,000-year-old circle of stones that is one of the world’s most famous prehistoric sites, thought to have been built around 2,500 B.C. It is a World Heritage Site.
According to Just Stop Oil’s website, the pigment was made of an “orange cornflour” that will wash away in the rain.
The group recently took responsibility for smashing the glass protecting the original copy of the Magna Carta at the British Museum in London.
