Sentences with phrase «whale and dolphin products»
Thanks to an amazing outpouring of support from the public, Amazon now explicitly prohibits the sale of whale and dolphin products.
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Rakuten joins Amazon and Google in refusing to sell whale and dolphin products.
The only remaining major Internet seller of whale and dolphin products in Japan now is Yahoo.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Wildlife advocates expressed bitter disappointment today at the refusal of international conglomerate, SoftBank Corp., to ban advertisements for elephant ivory and whale and dolphin products on Yahoo! Japan — the dominant company in SoftBank's internet division with revenues of nearly USD 4 billion in 2012.
Although Yahoo! has banned the sale of endangered and protected species from all other Yahoo! sites, EIA, HSI and NRDC are deeply concerned that the company has made no significant effort to persuade Yahoo! Japan to end the sale of whale and dolphin products.
«We appeal to Yahoo! to follow Amazon's lead and stop the sale of all whale and dolphin products,» said Taryn Kiekow, staff attorney for NRDC.
«Yahoo! continues to ignore international outrage over the sale of whale and dolphin products via its Japanese website, even as it continues to profit from the slaughter of whales and dolphins,» said EIA President Allan Thornton.
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I am boycotting all Japanese products and advising all my friends and anyone else to stay away from anything Japanese until they fall in line with international law and world sentiment that it is wrong to kill whales and dolphins.
«In just 24 hours, more than 35,000 HSI supporters have appealed to Amazon for a total ban on the sale of whale, dolphin and porpoise products,» said Kitty Block, vice president of Humane Society International «The public wants these animals protected rather than killed and sold for profit.»
TOKYO (March 1, 2011)-- Environmentalists on Monday called on Yahoo! Japan to ban all sales of whale, dolphin and porpoise products on their fee - based store and auction sites after discovering that whale products sold via the Yahoo! Japan sites were contaminated with toxic mercury pollution.
More good news came in late last night when Rakuten, the world's largest Internet seller of whale and dolphin meat products, agreed to stop all sales of products derived from whales by April 30th this year.