Greenpeace protestors invade UK gvt building



LONDON, April 10 — Activists from the environmental campaign group Greenpeace invaded and occupied a government building on Wednesday in protest at plans to use wood from African rainforests for replacement doors.
''There is a building that is under invasion. It is currently being occupied,'' a spokesman for the government's Cabinet Office told Reuters.

He said the building, at number 22 Whitehall in central London, was not currently used by government staff since it was under renovation.
Greenpeace said around 40 of its campaigners had entered the office at around 8.0 a.m. (0700 GMT) and declared it ''an ancient forest crime scene.''
As part of the building's renovation, the government wanted to install hundreds of new doors and windows made from Africa's last rainforest, the pressure group said in a statement.
A Greenpeace spokeswoman at the scene told Reuters police had made some arrests but she could not say how many.