Green Peace damages Nacza lines

[Jenny A]

This is willful defacement of a historical monument. It isn't any different than TPing (covering in toilet paper) Mount Rushmore. It is vandalism pure and simple.

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Not even government officials are allowed on that site without special permission. It is so sensitive to foot traffic that when people do visit it, they are required to use special shoes and follow a strict protocol(which I am imagining probably involves walking on their tippy toes)

Nope. Vandalism requires damaging or defacing.

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Here's a USA Today article explaining it more in-depth:

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world.../20318005/

Still no evidence or even a description of damage.

It's good that they used cloth letters. BUT no one is generally allowed in the area to limit tracks and those who are allowed in must wear special shoes. Footprints damage the site for hundreds of years. Yes they may have damaged the site. And why risk damage for a stunt?

The Nazca lines depict living creatures, stylized plants and imaginary figures scratched on the surface of the ground between 1,500 and 2,000 years ago. They're believed to have had ritual astronomical functions.

"They 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."

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world.../20318005/