Stonehenge spray-painted orange by protesters calling for climate action

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12. Harmless this time, but marginal - it depended on dry weather

English Heritage said the orange paint had been removed using a "specialist handheld blower".

It told the BBC that if rain had come into contact with the powder, damage could have been significant.

The stones are covered in more than fifty different lichens, some of them rare. This meant brushing or washing the paint off was not possible.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crgg0683e7po

But I agree this gets far more publicity than actions that are more directly against fossil fuels - the Stansted private jet action today has gone unnoticed on DU:

Two people arrested after activists spray private jets with paint at Stansted

Just Stop Oil activists have sprayed orange paint over private jets at Stansted airport on the airfield where Taylor Swift’s plane is stationed, the environmental group has said.

Two activists, Jennifer Kowalski, 28, a former sustainability manager from Dumbarton, and Cole Macdonald, 22, from Brighton, broke into a private airfield in Stansted at 5am on Thursday before targeting the jet.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jun/20/activists-spray-planes-with-paint-at-uk-airfield-where-taylor-swift-jet-landed