Sentences with phrase «of whale products»
Agree that the commercial sale of whale products from scientific whaling operations must be prohibited.
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WASHINGTON - Hundreds of whale products for sale on the Japanese website of Internet search engine company Yahoo! show how the California - based company profits from the venture, according to a new report released today that can be found by clicking here.
Governments must work to ensure that their ports are permanently closed to the transit of whale products from protected species.»
Internet retail giant Rakuten has announced it is terminating sales of whale products through its Japanese marketplace Rakuten Ichiba and has given merchants 30 days to remove them...
Hvalur exported whale products to Japan via Canada in January 2014, and a massive shipment of 2,000 tons of whale products left Iceland on March 20, 2014, destined for Japan.
«The International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling (ICRW), which originally aimed to prevent the oversupply of whale products but turned into a key instrument of whale conservation,» GEO - 5 notes, «can stand as another example.
Despite a moratorium on commercial whaling and a ban on international trade of whale products, countries such as Iceland continue to hunt whales for their markets.
Ignoring the concerns of both the IWC and CITES, Norway resumed international trade in whale meat in 2002 and has exported more than 107 tonnes of whale products to Iceland, Japan and the Faroe Islands in defiance of the CITES ban.
Yahoo! Japan also sells hundreds of whale products including internationally protected species such as fin whales illegally killed in Iceland, minke whales killed in the Antarctic whale sanctuary as well as Bryde's, sei and sperm whales killed in the Northwest Pacific.
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Internet retail giant Rakuten has announced it is terminating sales of whale products through its Japanese marketplace Rakuten Ichiba and has given merchants 30 days to remove them.
Hundreds of whale products, including endangered fin whale from Iceland and products from the whale and dolphin drive hunts in Taiji featured in the documentary The Cove, are also being sold on Rakuten Ichiba.