Climate Protesters Paint Stonehenge Monument Orange

Just Stop Oil protesters have sprayed Stonehenge with orange paint, prompting members of the public to attempt to drag them away.

UK police arrested two individuals on Wednesday after environmental activists sprayed an orange substance on Stonehenge, the renowned prehistoric UNESCO World Heritage site in southwest England.

The Just Stop Oil protest group announced that two activists had “decorated Stonehenge in orange powder paint” to demand that Britain’s next government legally commit to phasing out fossil fuels by 2030.

Footage posted on social media shows activists, wearing “Just Stop Oil” branded T-shirts, spraying a cluster of the megalithic standing stones with the orange substance from a small canister.

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The group identified the activists as 21-year-old student Niamh Lynch and 73-year-old Rajan Naidu, stating they had used “orange cornflour” for the stunt.

They claimed the substance would “soon wash away with the rain.” English Heritage, the public body that manages the site, reported that its experts were assessing “the extent of the damage” to the circle of stones, some of which are believed to date back 5,000 years.