Calling for an end to climate change

As the climate conference in Copenhagen continues, there are many parallel demonstrations going on as a reaction to the climate conference. People are trying to remind everyone of the effects of climate change and its impact.

Four tons of ice were used to sculpt two three-meter statues of a man and a woman holding a baby. Two big Maasai warriors stand at the venue where the United Nations climate meeting is taking place in Copenhagen. Maasai tribes of East Africa are being hit hard by the changing climate.

In Kenya one of the worst droughts in living memory devastated Maasai livestock and livelihoods.

Soren Nielsen, sculptor, said, "The Maasai people are drying out from the global heating. The water is disappearing and if you look at it this way, the dehydration that dehydrates the water of the Maasai land and there the ice will symbolize the dehydration."

Mark Coreth, director of the Ice Bear Project, puts the finishing touches  on an ice sculpture of a polar bear in downtown Copenhagen December 5, 2009. The installation is a part of an initiative to put focus on the  consequences of global warming. (Xinhua/Reuters Photo)