cetaceans
Whale issue関連で、今度はAmazon Japanがやり玉に挙がりました。関連語彙のいくつかを押さえましょう。GPくん、どうぞ。（元ゼミ生 Koyamamoto）
Amazon Japan profiting from slaughter of whales, dolphins: investigation agency
NATIONAL FEB. 27, 2012 - 07:15AM JST ( 13 )WASHINGTON —
Internet marketplace giant Amazon.com has been called on to stop supporting commercial whaling by immediately and permanently banning the sale of all products from whales, dolphins and porpoises (collectively known as “cetaceans”).
Amazon.com’s Unpalatable Profits, a new report by the Environmental Investigation Agency, launched in co-operation with Humane Society International, reveals that Amazon Japan, the wholly owned subsidiary of Amazon Inc, sells more than a hundred cetacean food products.
In December 2011, 147 whale products were found for sale on Amazon Japan. The listed products included fin, sei, minke and Bryde’s whales, all protected by the International Whaling Commission’s moratorium on commercial whaling and the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species, which forbids international trade. Despite this, several companies were selling endangered fin whale imported from Iceland.
