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A climate change banner is seen beside the Nazca lines located on a stretch of coastal desert in Peru. Twenty Greenpeace activists from seven different countries unfurled the gigantic letters that formed the message: "Time for Change: The Future is Renewable," in light of the UN Climate Change summit currently underway in Lima.


Peru has vowed to prosecute Greenpeace activists after they allegedly damaged the world-famous Nazca lines during an environmental publicity stunt.


Activists from the group unfurled cloth letters spelling out a green energy slogan at the millennia-old site on Monday, adjacent to where the figure of a hummingbird is etched into the ground.


Peru has said the activists damaged the ground by leaving footprints, which could last for thousands of years.


“It’s a true slap in the face at everything Peruvians consider sacred,” Luis Jaime Castillo, the deputy culture minister, said.


In a statement, the Peruvian culture ministry said: "After the illegal, premeditated action by environmental defense group Greenpeace, the zone has been seriously affected.”

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