Internet giant Amazon appears to have removed all whale products from its wholly owned Japanese website Amazon Japan overnight, following worldwide publicity that scores of whale products were offered for sale, some from endangered and protected whale species and other products containing dangerous levels of mercury
Internet marketplace giant Amazon is called on to stop supporting commercial whaling by immediately and permanently banning the sale of all products from whales, dolphins and porpoises following the revelation that Amazon Japan, the wholly owned subsidiary of Amazon Inc, sells hundreds of cetacean food products
The risky undercover work of the London-based Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) is showcased in three new films to be broadcast in Australia and New Zealand on Nat Geo Wild
The risky undercover work of the EIA is showcased in three new films to be broadcast in the UK on Nat Geo Wild. A year in the making, the films follow EIA through countries as diverse as Iceland, Japan, Vietnam, Laos, China and Kenya to chronicle new investigations into whaling, illegal logging and the ivory trade
The Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) today confirmed that a further 131 tonnes of Icelandic fin whale has been shipped to Japan and renewed its call for global retailer Yahoo! to immediately prohibit the sale of the endangered species via Yahoo! Japan
Conservation groups reacted with dismay and disgust after being forced out of a crucial session on elephants and the ivory trade at the UN CITES Convention in Geneva. The move comes as China faces criticism for failing to clamp down on its illegal ivory trade, raising suspicions it may have been behind the exclusion