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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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Thanks for an incredible week for whales and dolphins!

Japan’s scientific whaling in the Antarctic does not comply with the terms of the International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling (ICRW) that govern such whaling (it is therefore illegal). JARPA II, the biggest wildlife science fraud ever, is effectively over

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Yahoo! stays silent as whaling protests get ever louder

It’s been a busy and exhilarating week for EIA’s cetaceans team since last Friday when we rolled out the second phase of our ongoing campaign to persuade Yahoo! to stop profiting from the sale of whale and dolphin meat via Yahoo! Japan

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Amazon whale meat campaign: going behind the scenes

What a difference a day makes – on Tuesday morning we launched our campaign to urge internet giant Amazon to remove all whale products from its wholly owned subsidiary Amazon Japan, spurring tens of thousands of people around the world to act, and by the end of the day Amazon had quietly removed all whale products