Climate protesters throw red paint at Brazil’s London embassy
Climate change protesters covered Brazil’s London embassy with red paint this morning, as outrage grows over the fate of the Amazon rain forest under President Jair Bolsonaro.
Two Extinction Rebellion activists climbed onto a glass awning above the embassy’s entrance, while others fixed themselves to the windows with glue.
They left red hand prints and streaks of paint across the facade, writing “no more indigenous blood,” and “for the wild.”
Last month Bolsonaro came under pressure as official figures showed that deforestation in the Amazon had accelerated in the first half of July.
Loggers cut down more than 1,000 square kilometres, a 68 per cent increase year-on-year.
A scandal erupted last month after Bolsonaro hit out at his own state agency, accusing it of lying in the data.
The controversial told journalists that the agency’s head would be called to explain himself. “I am convinced that the data is a lie,” he said.
Days later he called on tighter control of the data.
Main image credit: Extinction Rebellion