Residents remove Greenpeace mural from wildfire-scorched Welsh mountain
A climate protest artwork targeting Andy Burnham was painted on a burned hillside in Conwy after recent wildfires, then removed by local residents.
What to know
- Greenpeace painted a climate-crisis mural on a wildfire-scorched Welsh mountain as a message to the UK Prime Minister, but local residents removed it.
- The central dispute: Greenpeace argues the water-based paint on already-burned land was safe and justified by climate urgency; residents and local politicians call it hypocrisy and vandalism.
- The mural's removal highlights tension between climate activism and community grievance in disaster zones.
The dispute Whether a temporary water-based paint mural on already-burned land constitutes responsible climate activism or environmental hypocrisy and disrespect to wildfire-affected communities.
Greenpeace's climate message was justified and the execution was responsible.
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“We took great care to minimise our impact on the land. The artwork was temporary by design: created with a water-based paint often used on sports turf and safe for grass, plants and soil.”
Areeba Hamid · BBC News
The mural was inappropriate activism that contradicted Greenpeace's own principles and disrespected affected residents.
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“Thought Greenpeace was all about leave no trace and you do this to the mountain side.”
Ward · BBC News
“We took great care to minimise our impact on the land. The artwork was temporary by design: created with a water-based paint often used on sports turf and safe for grass, plants and soil.”
Areeba Hamid, Greenpeace UK co-executive director · BBC News
Greenpeace UK Climate advocacy groupAreeba Hamid Greenpeace UK co-executive directorWard Local resident
Janet Finch-Saunders Bangor Conwy Môn Senedd member
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