Greenpeace Permanently Damages Nazca Hummingbird
(top: before; bottom: after [damage outlined in red])The activists entered a restricted area next to the ancient ground markings depicting a hummingbird and laid down letters advocating renewable energy. [x]
"[The drawings] 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." [x]
By writing a message in English on a site belonging to a country that has three official languages that aren’t English, the environmental group also managed to come across as thoughtless and ignorant. The message wasn’t meant for the people of Peru, and yet the group still choose to desecrate an ancient monument to transmit it. [x]
They basically said, “We’re sorry if you got offended by us permanently damaging a site of incalculable historical and cultural importance.”