Greenpeace activists climbed Mexico City’s Estela de Luz monument on Tuesday morning to bring attention to the destruction of the Maya Rainforest. A group of protesters unfurled a 27-meter-long, 6-meter-wide banner calling on Mexico’s Environment Ministry (Semarnat) to do more to protect the jungle, a critical ecosystem in southeastern Mexico. The Selva Maya, which expands into northern Guatemala and Belize, is the largest tropical forest in Mesoamerica. Nine protesters arrived before dawn to scale the monument, reaching a height of approximately 70 meters, whereupon they spread open the banner, which read: The Selva Maya cries out! But it is in grave danger.”In a press release, Greenpeace México outlined its demands and explained that it timed this protest to roughly coincide with the nation’s Independence Day celebrations.