Japan retailer Rakuten slammed over ivory and whale meat products
London (AFP) – Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten is the world’s largest online marketplace for elephant ivory and whale meat products, an environmental campaign group said Tuesday, saying that running the advertisements was akin to arming poachers …
The West Australian – March 19, 2014, 5:01 am
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The Amazon.com of Japan is the world’s biggest online retailer of elephant ivory and whale meat
By Gwynn Guilford
Countries around the world are burning ivory stockpiles. It’s a powerful symbol against the illegal trade in elephant tusks that resulted in as many as 30,000 elephant deaths ( www.cites.org/eng/news/pr/2013… ) last year. But those demonstrations can only be so effective when a legal market for ivory trade exists. And according to a new report ( pdf – www.eia-international.org/wp-c… ) from the Environmental Investigation Agency, an NGO, one of the world’s biggest digital companies is facilitating not only a brisk business in illegal ivory, but also the sale of meat from endangered whales …
Quartz – March 18, 2014
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Howard G. Buffett Pledges $23.7 Million to Save Rhinos
by Joan Reddy
American philanthropist Howard Graham Buffett, son of business magnate Warren Buffet, pledged $23.7 million through his privately owned Howard G. Buffett Foundation ( www.thehowardgbuffettfoundatio… ) to help South Africa’s Kruger National Park combat rhino poaching …
Ecorazzi – March 18, 2014
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