ACTIVISTS opposing plans to build a two-mile-long tunnel near Stonehenge projected images onto the site to condemn the development.
Members of Extinction Rebellion and Sacred Earth Activism took to the site, near Amesbury, at dusk on Monday, August 14.
They shone lights on the stones with messages including 'Standing for Stonehenge', 'Stop The Tunnel' and 'No New Roads'.
The Secretary of State Mark Harper approved plans for the £1.7bn tunnel on Friday, July 14.
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In the decision letter, the Government said Mr Harper is "satisfied that on balance the need case for the proposed development together with the other benefits identified outweigh any harm identified."
UNESCO declared the scheme as being incompatible with its 'Outstanding Universal Value' and warned Stonehenge could lose its World Heritage Site status if it were to go ahead.
Marion Malcher, from Extinction Rebellion, said: "The decision to go ahead with this project is political. Building more roads just encourages more traffic.
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"It’s completely pointless and destructive both locally and globally, totally ignoring what science is telling us as we see the floods and fires of climate breakdown unfold.”
Di Cross labelled the scheme as a "crime against nature", adding: "The planet is experiencing the sixth mass extinction in its long history.
"To even consider rolling in the bulldozers to any part of this precious landscape, the home to rare and threatened species, is ecocide."
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