Sentences with phrase «remove whale products»
«We welcome Amazon's action to remove whale products from its Japanese website but urge Amazon to confirm it will enact a company - wide ban on the sale of all products derived from whales, dolphins or porpoises,» said Allan Thornton, president of EIA.
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WASHINGTON, DC — Internet giant Amazon.com appears to have removed all whale products from its wholly owned Japanese website overnight, following worldwide publicity that scores of whale products were offered for sale.
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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...
Iceland's increased commercial whaling and recent trade in whale products diminish the effectiveness of the IWC's conservation program because: (1) Iceland's commercial harvest of whales undermines the moratorium on commercial whaling put in place by the IWC to protect plummeting whale stocks; (2) the fin whale harvest greatly exceeds catch levels that the IWC's scientific body advised would be sustainable if the moratorium were removed; and (3) Iceland's harvests are not likely to be brought under IWC management and control at sustainable levels through multilateral efforts at the IWC.
After EIA's appeal and press attention, Amazon.com and Google were proactive in removing the ads; however, EIA appealed to Google and Amazon.com to not only remove the ads for ivory and whale products, but also to remain vigilant in enforcing their policies in the future.
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.
Last year, EIA launched a successful campaign that resulted in Amazon.com banning the sale of whale products, removing a large amount of whale products from the Japanese market.
Upon this discovery, EIA immediately appealed to the CEOs of both Google and Amazon.com to remove ads promoting the sale of whale and ivory products on their Japanese shopping sites.
After receiving no response, we issued a press release in March highlighting Google's ads and sale of ivory and whale products, and Google eventually removed the product ads.
Today Yahoo! Japan lists almost 8,000 ads for elephant ivory, which have tripled in number since March after Amazon and Google enforced a ban and removed all ads for elephant ivory and whale products from their Japanese shopping sites.