NEW YORK (AP) — Police say a Times Square climate change protest has resulted in dozens of civil disobedience arrests in New York’s Times Square.

The protesters brought a green boat on a trailer into the busy traffic hub on Thursday then sat down and refused officers’ orders to move.

The boat bore the logo of the activist group Extinction Rebellion . It also had the words “Act Now” written on it and a string of brightly colored flags.

Authorities removed the vessel some time later, which brought the traffic back to normal.

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On Monday, members of the movement smeared themselves and emblems of Wall Street in fake blood and lay in New York streets.

The environmental protests have been taking place in cities around the world.