Google and the promotion of whale and elephant product sales in Japan
A briefing on the promotion of endangered whale and elephant products by internet giant Google on Google Japan Shopping.
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Google promotes online sales of elephant & whale products
Internet giant fails to enforce its own policies LONDON / WASHINGTON DC: Environmentalists today appealed to internet giant Google to remove thousands of advertisements from its Japanese Shopping site which promote products for sale from endangered whale and elephant species. The Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) wrote to Google CEO Larry Page on February 22, [...]
Volunteering insight with the environmental James Bonds!
Having been a follower of EIA’s work for some time, I was thrilled when there arose an opportunity to volunteer for three months with its fundraising team. I used to joke with my friends that EIA were the James Bonds of the environmental movement. Having become more acquainted with the work done here, this is [...]
Call to CITES: Stop Stimulating Demand
LONDON: The campaigning Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) is calling on international policy-makers to Stop Stimulating Demand for critically endangered species. The London-based NGO cautioned that conflicting decisions and top-level discussions regarding trades in the products of endangered species such as elephants, tigers and precious woods create consumer confusion and ultimately drive poaching/theft by criminals to [...]
EIA documents for CITES CoP16, March 2013
Proposals for Amendment of Appendices I & II Download this document here. Working Documents Download this document here.
Act now to safeguard the UK’s National Wildlife Crime Unit
Do you want to take meaningful action to help end wildlife crime? Here’s a simple thing you can do right now in the UK – write to your MP and ask them to sign this Early Day Motion in Parliament calling on the UK Government to finance the country’s National Wildlife Crime Unit (NWCU). The [...]