Tag: environmental activists

Art attack: masterpieces targeted by activists

The dousing of a glass-covered Mona Lisa in pumpkin soup is the latest in a string of cases of priceless artworks being targeted by environmental activists. Here are some of the other cases that have made headlines in the past two years: – Soup for “Sunflowers” – In October 2022, two activists from the Just Stop Oil group emptied cans of tomato soup over the glass protecting Vincent van Gogh’s “Sunflowers” in London’s National Gallery. […]

Environmental activist, 14, shot dead in Colombia

BOGOTA, Colombia (AFP) – A 14-year-old environmental activist has been shot dead in Colombia, indigenous groups and officials said, in the latest such attack in the world’s deadliest country for environmentalists. Breiner David Cucuname was one of two people killed while taking part in a rural security patrol Friday by an indigenous guard in the southwestern Cauca department plagued by violence between illicit armed groups. The group of the Nasa indigenous community, armed only with […]