Hundreds of naked women force scientists to flee

Three hundred naked female protesters have forced a group of scientists to flee a research project they were carrying out in Kenya.

The experts were working on a census of rare red colobus monkeys near the Kenyan coast.

The women opted to undertake the bare protest to draw extra media attention to their opposition to plans to turn the land into a national park.

The scientists ran away, leaving their equipment behind them in the Mnazini area of the Tana River.

Newspapers say the protesters damaged some of the equipment.

Residents of the area are resisting plans to extend the Tana River Primate National Reserve because they don't want to be relocated.