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The Spring 2012 issue of Investigator is now available

The Spring 2012 issue of our bi-annual newsletter Investigator, giving you an overview of our key campaign activities during the past six months. This issue features an update on our work to help the people of Muara Tae and lots more

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EIA undercover films take top awards at festival!

Three titles featuring EIA working undercover were chosen for the competition – Blood Ivory and Making Killing, both made by Red Earth Studio for National Geographic, and the BBC Natural History Unit’s Madagascar, Lemurs & Spies

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Action alert: Tell Amazon to ban all whale products

After our campaign urging internet retail giant Amazon to stop selling whale meat via its subsidiary Amazon Japan resulted in all such products being withdrawn from sale, we call on the company to formally declare that all whale, dolphin and porpoise products will be banned from all Amazon websites, permanently

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New trailer for gripping EIA film Hunt for the Whalers

The documentary follows EIA investigators from Iceland to Japan as they document the hunting of endangered fin whales for export to Japanese consumers, using covert filming and cutting-edge DNA analysis to put the pieces together and expose the key players behind the trade

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Three new films about EIA premiere across Asia

Screened as the three-part mini-series Crimes Against Nature 2 on National Geographic Channel (Asia), the programmes were a year in the making and take viewers into the murky and high-stakes underbelly of global environmental crime, from Scandinavia to Africa and Asia

Dead Porpoises in fish factory
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First official day of Japan’s annual Dall’s porpoise hunt

Today (November 1) is the official opening of Japan’s annual Dall’s porpoise hunt, the largest direct hunt of any whale, dolphin and porpoise in the world. The port of Otsuchi, in northern Japan, is the focal point of the hand harpoon hunt which has claimed up to 15,000 Dall’s porpoises in previous years