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Whale campaign that made a huge change – overnight!

Five years ago we secured what is probably the fastest campaign win in our history when we sought to pressure Amazon to end all sales of whale products. Amazon had previously been unresponsive, we anticipated the likelihood of a fairly lengthy process as we engaged the company to persuade it to do the right thing

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New footage of dolphin hunts in Taiji’s notorious cove

EIA investigators have just returned from Japan where they documented the killing and live capture of dolphins in Taiji’s notorious cove. They also looked into commercial sales of the dolphin meat derived from the kills through local supermarkets and obtained a number of samples to test for mercury contamination

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SoftBank won’t end Yahoo! Japan ivory & whale sales

Wildlife advocates expressed bitter disappointment today at the refusal of international conglomerate SoftBank Corp to ban advertisements for elephant ivory and whale & dolphin products on Yahoo! Japan, the dominant company in SoftBank’s internet division with revenues of nearly US$4 billion in 2012

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Amazon confirms policy to ban whale & dolphin products

Internet giant Amazon has officially banned the sale of whale and dolphin products from its wholly owned Japanese website following outrage that they were offered for sale after we revealed Amazon Japan not only sold products from endangered and protected whale species but also containing dangerous levels of mercury