Easter Island looks for help to save statues from 'leprosy'

White spots eating away at the sculptures are softening them to a clay-like consistency and deforming their features
Within a century the emblematic stone figures that guard remote Easter Island could be little more than weathered rectangular blocks, conservation experts are warning – but Britain could be part of the fix.The giant heads, carved centuries ago by the island’s inhabitants, represent the living ancestors of Easter Island’s Polynesian people – the Rapa Nui &nd