Sentences with phrase «whale products from»

Governments must work to ensure that their ports are permanently closed to the transit of whale products from protected species.»

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.

Agree that the commercial sale of whale products from scientific whaling operations must be prohibited.

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.

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.

«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.

Not exact matches

Most of the products derived from whales can now be produced from other sources just as well and in any case the most economic use of whales, so some have argued, would be to harvest the lot now and thus circumvent the necessity year after year.

As soon as an animal becomes of no more use to humans, as for example when the products now used from whales are superseded by synthetics, then there are no arguments left for the preservation of whales except that we like looking at them.

From termites to blue whales, virtually all life on Earth depends on plants» ability to turn sunlight and carbon dioxide into food — and without the waste product, oxygen, you would be dead in minutes.

But in the nine years before Edwin Drake struck oil in 1859 in Pennsylvania and made kerosene ubiquitous, at least five - sixths of the whale oil — lighting market had already been lost to competing products made from coal.

Other fats such as lard, tallow, sesame oil, perilla oil, whale oil, meat and egg yolk (all used in the traditional Japanese diet), and even from milk products (used in fairly large quantities today) will raise fat calories to something like 20 - 30 percent of the total.

«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.

During visits from Numata to Port Hardy, the Port Hardy Twinning Society works hard to promote Port Hardy businesses and products to Numata through tourism - based activities such as caving, whale watching, harbour tours, town / retail business tours, as well as tours of our local fish processing plants and working forests.

I'd like to add that the whalers are from highly industrialized countries whose populations have nothing to do with the «hunt» but are buying whale meat like any other fungible supermarket product.

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.

The shipments are part of a growing international trade in whale and whale products — Japan is by far the dominant buyer — that has prompted growing criticism from the conservation group and other whale campaigners.

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.

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

Products from endangered whale species are currently available through Yahoo! Japan.

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.

«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.

The report also confirms that many of the products are from internationally protected great whale species including fin, sei, minke, sperm and Bryde's whale — all of whom are protected under the moratorium on commercial whaling established by the International Whaling Commission in 1986 and have the highest level of protection under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Swhaling established by the International Whaling Commission in 1986 and have the highest level of protection under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered SWhaling Commission in 1986 and have the highest level of protection under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species.

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.

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.

Food products from the hunts of protected minke whales killed in Norwegian waters are being sold in a number of SPAR Norway outlets and other NorgesGruppen stores.

There are approximately 2,000 tons of frozen fin whale products in storage in Iceland left from previous years.

Other ads feature products from whales brutally killed in the town of Taiji in southern Japan, made infamous by the Oscar - winning documentary «The Cove.»

The Environmental Investigation Agency, a non-profit environmental group based in Washington and London released new results of eight whale products purchased recently from Yahoo! Japan Store sites and tested by a laboratory in Japan earlier this month.

«Fin whales continue to be slaughtered and shipped from Iceland to Japan, undermining the moratorium on commercial whaling and ban on international commercial trade in fin whale products,» said Amy Zets, Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) policy analyst.

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.

Iceland imported eight tonnes of minke whale meat and blubber from Norway in two shipments in 2002, under their respective CITES reservations; Icland illegally exported 2.7 tons of whale oil to Belarus in 2006 and 2010 and 259 kg of whale meat to Latvia in 2010; Iceland exported 846,046 kg of «frozen whale meat and other products to Japan since 2008 (more than 90 percent in 2010) under their respective CITES reservations; Iceland has exported eight separate shipments of whale oil to Norway since 2008, totaling 708 kilograms, under their respective CITES reservations; Iceland has exported 1309 kilograms of whale meat to the Faroe Islands, a non-party to CITES.

While shopping online or buying locally is a toss up depending on what you're buying, once you've made your decision of how you're going to shop, apps like Good Guide and 3rd Whale inform you of the most sustainable products to buy and the best businesses to buy from.

Thanks to an amazing outpouring of support from the public, Amazon now explicitly prohibits the sale of whale and dolphin products.

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.