Photos - Oil Spill to save wildlife ?

Shortly after midday on Saturday the 3rd Feb, environmental activists defaced a Shell Oil sponsored photo exhibition and called on the Natural History Museum to drop it's greenwashing deal with the oil giant.

While a banner was dropped in the main hall and 600 leaflets handed out to members of the public, an oil like substance was sprayed over the wildlife photos in the Shell sponsored exhibition. There were a large number of security personnel present and some of the protesters were assaulted by panicking museum staff and members of the public but there were no arrests.

The action follows the publication of Shell's 2006 record breaking financial figures and the release of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change fourth report which yet again suggests that climate change is happening faster then previously predicted.

See press release at

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/02/361416.html

Other coverage :

http://www.fishupdate.com/news/fullstory.php/aid/6406/Wildlife_%91snappers%92_to_highlight_harm_done_by_Shell.html

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/6328049.stm

(copyright remains with the photographers)

For high resolution photos for publication

https://www.theimagefile.com/?skin=2903&ppwd=ks8551dt&Action=_VC&id=59798

Short video clip available on youtube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VTuR8vQs3k

r2r

Additions

short video

05.02.2007 00:52

- video/mp4 965K

here's a few seconds of the action.

r2r

Comments

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Interest

05.02.2007 14:58

I'm not a massive fan of any of the oil companies, and certainly not Shell, but, and here comes the unpopular bit, the Wildlife Photography competition is open to photographers of all ages all around the world. In my humble opinion, the competition itself raises awareness in the beauty of wildlife. The people who have damaged their (not Shells) pictures of life in its natural habitat have done nothing to battle the destruction of the environment. What they have done, again, in my humble opinion, is show some people with a keen interest and respect in the environment (the photographers and those who would visit the exhibition), what a mindless bunch of yobs can do in the name of a most worthy cause when they chose to hijack it and pass off their criminal activities as some sort direct action hitting hard at the heart of an environment destroying multinational.

So, if your intention was to further alienate those who could be convinced to stand up and be heard in the fight to save the environment, well done, you've excelled yourselves once again.

James

pictures are kept behind glass.

08.02.2007 18:48

call me a philistine if you like, but i am considerably more bothered about the actual continued existence of ecosystems than i am about nice pictures of them. also, the pictures are behind glass so they werent damaged in any way.

why do you think shell are sponsoring this event? its because they want to greenwash themselves. i fully support this action because PR greenwash and spin cannot be left unchallenged. shell have an exceptional track record of ecological devastation and disregard for human rights. i am glad the previous poster is not a massive fan of oil companies. me neither. are we supposed to sit back and let them buy off public opinion with their dirty oil money?

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