Demonstrators with a pink model of a dodo bird during a protest by members of Extinction Rebellion near the Science Museum, in central London. Supporters of Extinction Rebellion stood outside the museum waving flags and banners and playing drums and blowing whistles. Extinction Rebellion has criticised the Science Museum for taking funding from Shell for the Our Future Planet exhibition, which began on May 19 and runs until September. "Oil companies have an anti-science agenda and yet the Science Museum is taking their money. Hayley Pinto, an addiction psychiatrist from Norfolk, and a member of a group of doctors supporting Extinction Rebellion, told PA: "The Science Museum is somewhere I used to bring my kids when they were little.

Source: Irish Independent August 29, 2021 15:56 UTC