About The Wildlife Photography competion
The NHM's Wildlife Photographer competition began in 1964 with about 600 entries growing to today's annual 20,000 entries from more than 50 countries.
The best images are shown in an exhibition at the Natural History Museum ( October ) then tour throughout the UK and worldwide.
Now Shell cynically wishes to align itself with this competition. According to friends of The Earth:
" Shell's sponsorship is an act of blatant hypocrisy and undermines everything the competition stands for. "
We have to agree.
After years of claiming to be green, Shell's operations around the world stil cause unacceptable damage to wildlife - pollute local communities - help to accelerate climate change.
Even today Shell's operations affect people and the environment around the world.
Email campaign to Shell and the NHM at: Friends Of the Earth:-
Online form to email James Smith of Shell and the NHM.
Case Study:-Sakhalin Island Russia
The Sakhalin II project is destroying on-shore biodiversity and the lives of the people who relied on it, and the feeding grounds of the remaining western Pacific grey whales are still under threat due to the siting of off-shore platforms nearby, contrary to the advice of an IUCN independent scientific panel.
For a company who have surpassed profit expectations again this year, the measly proportion of assets directed towards the expansion of greener energy sources is ridiculous.
What's worse is that Shell wants to use public money from the European Bank of Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) to fund its environmentally damaging Sakhalin II project.
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