Sentences with phrase «whale products for»

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.

I have been meaning to try the Gnarly Whale products for a while now.

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Producers would have to develop new products and uses for the resource — gasoline, diesel, heating oil, asphalt, lubricants, petrochemicals and aviation fuel — before oil supplanted coal, wood and whale oil, the dominant energy sources of the day.

As soon as an animal becomes of no more use to humans, as for example when the products now used from whales are superseded by synthetics, then there are no arguments left for the preservation of whales except that we like looking at them.

When you buy the Fisher - Price Precious Planet Whale of a Tub you know that you are doing the best for your little one during bath time because this product is backed by the trusted Fisher - Price name.

I ordered the duvet cover in Cottage Blue Stars for the master bedroom and the Lapis Whales for the guest bedroom and absolutely love the qualityof this product!

The finished product stars Cress Williams (*) as Black Lightning, and shares some trappings with the other Berlanti shows: a large family presence (including Christine Adams as ex-wife Lynn, and Nafessa Williams and China Anne McClain as daughters Anissa and Jennifer), a cop (Damon Gupton's Inspector Henderson) who's not sure what to make of this superpowered vigilante, a trusty tech support sidekick (James Remar as Peter Gambi, who in the comics is a tailor specializing in making costumes for supervillains), and an archnemesis (Marvin Jones III — aka rapper Krondon — as vicious gangster Tobias Whale).

«We received a request for injectable antibiotics after the whales were found to have infections from being stranded,» said Christina Dougherty, VMD, Veterinary Medical Information and Product Support Manager for Pfizer Animal Health.

There are packages available for whale watching, cycling, coffee, and lavender products.

The Northern Sea Route along that coast has always been a busy passageway for coastal shipping — and is slowly becoming more of a global route for products moving between Europe and Asia (including Icelandic whale meat; more on that later today).

I understand Ben's seeing this issue from the Japanese point of view — they have been eating whale and using their products for centuries.

Our new report Blood e-Commerce: Rakuten's profits from the slaughter of elephants and whales — released by the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) in conjunction with Humane Society International (HSI) on March 18th — revealed that the company's Japanese website carries more than 28,000 ads for elephant ivory products.

«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.

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Substitutes for whale products are widely available, so there is no place for commercial whaling in today's economy.

Great news for whales, but Rakuten is still carrying ads for elephant ivory products, many originating from illegal ivory poached in...

«Killing for Commerce,» released by the Environmental Investigation Agency, in conjunction with Humane Society International and the Natural Resources Defense Council, details how the website Yahoo! Japan facilitates the sale of meat and other products of endangered whale in Japan.

«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.

Lastly, as long as whaling nations hold reservations at CITES for the great whales, they can not be prevented from legally trading whale products internationally.

The report shows how in March, Yahoo! Japan was found offering 249 whale products, including sashimi, bacon and canned whale meat, for sale on its fee - based sales and auction sites.

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.

«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.»

Accordingly, I am not directing the Secretary of the Treasury to impose trade measures on Icelandic products for the whaling activities that led to the certification by the Secretary of Commerce.

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.

The move came after the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA), in conjunction with Humane Society International (HSI), launched the report Blood e-Commerce on March 18 exposing Rakuten as the world's biggest online marketplace for elephant ivory and whale meat products, and the day after UN International Court of Justice ruled against Japan's fraudulent «scientific» whaling in the Antarctic.

Had such catch levels continued, more than 360,000 whales would have been killed over the last 30 years — however, that might not have been the case because populations may have crashed, and demand for products was reducing.

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.

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.

In light of the recent passage of the vessel Winter Bay through Russia's Northern Sea Route (NSR), the organizations are calling on GLACIER delegates and President Obama — who will attend the conference — to ensure that an increasingly ice - free Arctic will not become a thoroughfare for trade in commercial whale products.

In his bid to create a viable market for fin whale products in Japan, he has used the resources of another company for which he serves as Chair of the Board — Icelandic fishing giant HB Grandi.

Iceland's escalating exports of whale products under reservation, to non-parties, illegally diminishes the effectiveness of CITES» trade controls and are grounds for Pelly certification and sanctions.

The Pelly Amendment authorizes the president to impose trade sanctions against another country for «diminishing the effectiveness» of conservation agreements: In Iceland's case, the International Whaling Commission, which bans commercial whaling, and the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, which prohibits international commercial trade in whale prWhaling Commission, which bans commercial whaling, and the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, which prohibits international commercial trade in whale prwhaling, and the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, which prohibits international commercial trade in whale products.

The government of Iceland announced last week that it is calling off its controversial whale hunt, not because of political pressure, but due to the lack of demand for whale meat and other whale products.

Now on what essentially is a whale - hunting «break,» Iceland says that it will not issue whale - hunting quotas until market demand increases or it manages to get its tenterhooks on a license to export whale products to Japan, one of the largest markets for whale meat (aka The Jackpot).

«There is no reason to continue commercial whaling if there is no demand for the product.»

Yet Guofinnsson says the slack demand for whale meat and products means it makes no sense to issue new quotas when the present quota period expires on 31 August.

Part of the reason for the limited demand is that Iceland currently does not have a licence to export whale products to Japan, one of the largest markets for whale meat.

In fact, the public support for whale products in Norway has dropped so dramatically that last year that whalers ended the hunting season early due to a lack of demand.

They are the World the World Trade Organization's ruling upholding the EU law banning seal products, and the decision of the International Court of Justice that Japan's Antarctic whale hunt is not exempt from the international moratorium on commercial whaling because it does not qualify for the scientific research exemption under international whaling law.