Rakuten pulls whale products - but ivory sales continue

The Ecologist
Apr 2, 2014, 12:50 pm18 pts
Internet retail giant Rakuten has announced it is terminating sales of whale products through its Japanese marketplace Rakuten Ichiba and has given merchants 30 days to remove them. But thousands of ivory products are still for sale.

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