Hong Kong’s new dinosaur exhibition warns of human extinction at the hands of climate change and the perils that face our environment
- The Hong Kong Science Museum’s latest exhibition aims to help visitors learn from the past to combat climate change and preserve earth’s biodiversity
- Tyrannosaurus rex, Triceratops and Spinosaurus are among the impressive fossil specimens on show, painstakingly collected from all over the world
When visitors step into “The Big Eight – Dinosaur Revelation” exhibition at the Hong Kong Science Museum, they will be greeted with a clear, but maybe surprising, message:
“Do not choose extinction.”
Paulina Chan, director of the museum, says: “The earth has experienced a number of mass extinction events because of changes to the environment. We are facing the same challenges caused by climate change.
“We have serious global warming, we have extreme weather conditions, we are losing our biodiversity. All of this information is telling us that we are facing the same fate as the dinosaurs.”
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Hong Kong Science Museum chief on preparing for Big Eight dinosaur exhibition
“We need to think about if someday humans will be extinct, and we are at a critical juncture. We need immediate action to save our earth, to try and sustain our environment,” she says.