Internet giant urged to ban all sales of whale and dolphin products LONDON, UK: Hundreds of whale products are being offered for sale on the Japanese website of internet search engine company Yahoo!, according to a new report. Killing for Commerce, released today by the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA), in conjunction with Humane Society [...]
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Asia: Wildlife, Europe, Latest News, Oceans, Whales
ICELAND TO RESUME HUNT OF ENDANGERED FIN WHALES
London/Washington DC: Conservation and animal welfare groups have expressed concern over news that Iceland’s hunt of endangered fin whales will resume this summer. The Icelandic newspaper Skessuhorn reported on Thursday that it had “reliable evidence” fin whaling will begin again, after being shut down last summer due to the impacts of the earthquake and [...]
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Asia: Wildlife, Dolphins, Oceans, Porpoises, Whales
JAPANESE WHALING – A TOXIC TALE OF DEATH AND DEVASTATION
Environmental Investigation Agency visuals specialist Paul Redman reflects on almost a decade of campaigning and investigating the hunting and killing of whales, porpoises and dolphins in Japan. Empathy. My view of Japan is born out of an annual visit to the bitterly cold fish markets of the north and south. Year after year, we [...]
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‘EXTREME ENDEMIC CRUELTY’ A HALLMARK OF FAROE ISLANDS WHALING
Environmental Investigation Agency co-director Jennifer Lonsdale has been a leading cetacean campaigner for over three decades; EIA was actually formed in 1984 just one month after she and fellow co-founder Dave Currey travelled to the Faroe Islands to document and expose the world’s largest whale hunt of more than 2,000 pilot whales. Here, Jennifer gives [...]
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Introducing the Bush Warriors Rhino Sanctuary In South Africa
Over the last 4 year we have steadily seen the increase in rhino poaching in [...]
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