WASHINGTON, D.C. – A new report released today reveals that Internet giant Yahoo! is involved in extensive trade in whales, dolphins and elephant ivory products. The report, “Yahoo! and the Sale of Whale, Dolphin and Elephant Products,” is published by the non-profit Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) based in Washington, DC and London, UK. It documents […]
Yahoo! Inc., via its Japanese subsidiary Yahoo! Japan, is an important corporate facilitator of the widespread commercial trade in trade in whale and dolphin products and African elephant ivory in Japan. Yahoo! Japan Shopping and Auction sites sell more than four hundred whale and dolphin products (through around 100 whale trading companies), and thousands of […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. – April 1, 2010 marks the beginning of enforcement for basic information transparency requirements under the Lacey Act for guitars, revolvers, hand tools, pool cues and certain types of furniture. The US Lacey Act, amended in May 2008, makes it a federal crime to trade in illegal wood products. Under a phased-in process, […]
The level of illegal ivory being seized worldwide is at an all-time high as evidenced by the number of large consignments that have been seized since January 2009. In November 2008, 108 tonnes of ivory was sold in a “one-off” sale to China and Japan from Botswana, Namibia, South Africa and Zimbabwe. The view was […]
The world’s forests are a critical piece of the climate change puzzle. Forests cover 30% of Earth’s land surface, sequester some 45% of terrestrial carbon, and influence the climate through albedo and regional weather pattern effects. Scientific literature increasingly supports the fact that primary forests store vast amounts of standing carbon and continue to sequester […]
This document, the results of a series of workshops carried out in Lima, and the capital cities of Peru’s three principal Amazonian regions, Ucayali, Loreto,and Madre de Dios, brings together the perceptions and recommendations of Peruvian civil society regarding the advances made by the Peruvian government in strengthening the governance of the forest sector in […]