Mumbai: Activist group Greenpeace ambushed the Essar Group on Wednesday January 23 by rolling down a huge poster that said “I Kill Forests: Essar” on the facade of the Essar headquarters in Mumbai.

The protest relates to Essar Power’s plans to start mining at Mahan in Madhya Pradesh, one of the oldest deciduous forests of India where almost 62 villages that depend on the forest for their livelihood.

The poster was rolled down on Wednesday afternoon by Greenpeace activists and removed later in the evening due to which reportedly it is learnt that some of the activists were arrested.