Ocean reports

Dying at Our Convenience

A briefing to the 64th Annual Meeting of the International Whaling Commission, in Panama, on the impacts of marine debris on cetaceans. Marine debris has the potential to affect all trophic levels and the entire food chain, from planktonic microorganisms through to marine megafauna including cetaceans

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Killing for Commerce

Hundreds of whale products are being offered for sale on the Japanese website of internet search engine company Yahoo!. Killing for Commerce details how Yahoo! Japan facilitates the sale of whale meat in Japan and how US parent company Yahoo! profits from the sales of products made from endangered whales

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Breaking Ranks: Denmark Goes It Alone on Whaling Policy

A report documenting how for the past 20 years Denmark has actively supported countries which practice commercial whaling. The country’s stance raises serious questions as to how the Danish presidency of the EU can be maintained, given that its whaling policy doesn’t mesh with EU law

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Amazon.com’s Unpalatable Profits

A report calling on internet marketplace giant Amazon.com to stop supporting commercial whaling by immediately and permanently banning the sale of all products from whales, dolphins and porpoises. Listed products included fin, sei, minke and Bryde’s whales

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Renegade Whaling

This report exposes how Iceland is defying international treaties to hunt endangered fin whales in a bid to create a new consumer market in Japan. it identifies wealthy Icelandic businessman Kristján Loftsson and his firm Hvalur hf as the driving force behind the bloody trade

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Yahoo!. and the Sale of Whale, Dolphin and Elephant Products

Yahoo! Inc., via its Japanese subsidiary Yahoo! Japan, is an important corporate facilitator of the widespread commercial trade in trade in whale and dolphin products and African elephant ivory in Japan. Yahoo! Japan Shopping and Auction sites sell more than four hundred whale and dolphin products (through around 100 whale trading companies), and thousands of […]

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