A climate activist was arrested at the Royal BC Museum Wednesday after splodging the woolly mammoth exhibit with pink paint..A video posted to social media by the group On2Ottawa shows a woman — identified as “Laura” — sitting in front of the freshly-smeared mammoth tusks with an open jar of paint..“If the government does not enact a citizen’s assembly to tackle the climate and ecological crisis in the next one to two years, then we will be travelling to Ottawa to demand one,” said Laura..Museum staff told CHEK News that the paint smearing occurred around 11 a.m., and that those behind the incident have been taken into custody by Victoria police..“Staff safely apprehended those involved and called Victoria Police Department who arrived on the scene and have taken the activists into custody,” said staff, further noting that the paint had been cleaned off within a few hours..“It was water soluble, so it’s removed from his tusk and there are a few drops on the diorama and that have been completely removed.”
A climate activist was arrested at the Royal BC Museum Wednesday after splodging the woolly mammoth exhibit with pink paint..A video posted to social media by the group On2Ottawa shows a woman — identified as “Laura” — sitting in front of the freshly-smeared mammoth tusks with an open jar of paint..“If the government does not enact a citizen’s assembly to tackle the climate and ecological crisis in the next one to two years, then we will be travelling to Ottawa to demand one,” said Laura..Museum staff told CHEK News that the paint smearing occurred around 11 a.m., and that those behind the incident have been taken into custody by Victoria police..“Staff safely apprehended those involved and called Victoria Police Department who arrived on the scene and have taken the activists into custody,” said staff, further noting that the paint had been cleaned off within a few hours..“It was water soluble, so it’s removed from his tusk and there are a few drops on the diorama and that have been completely removed.”
