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Climate activists toss pink paint on Royal B.C. Museum's mammoth replica

A centrepiece of the Royal B.C. Museum in Victoria, Woolly the mammoth, was defaced with pink paint by protesters trying to draw attention to climate change.

3 arrested, incident under investigation: Victoria police

Girl in bright pink shirt paints the tusks of a woolly mammoth statue bright pink.
Laura Sullivan, a climate activist with On2Ottawa, vandalized the Royal B.C. Museum's Woolly Mammoth replica with washable pink paint to issue an ultimatum to the government for climate inaction. (On2Ottawa)

A centrepiece of the Royal B.C. Museum in Victoria, Woolly the mammoth, was defaced with pink paint by protesters trying to draw attention to climate change.

A statement issued by the new climate campaign "On2Ottawa'' says washable pink paint was tossed at the tusks of the three-metre-tall mammoth to protest what it calls "criminal'' federal government inaction on the climate emergency.

Victoria police say three people were arrested for mischief on Wednesday, and the incident remains under investigation.

A statement from the museum says staff members cleaned off the water-soluble paint, and there was no permanent damage to Woolly, a giant replica of a mammoth whose tusks are made of fibreglass.

Police say other visitors, including children, were present in the gallery when the paint was splashed.

The exhibition was re-opened within 90 minutes.

The On2Ottawa group wants people to join a caravan to Ottawa that's expected to leave Vancouver on April 1 to push for urgent actions needed to tackle climate change.