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Google urged to remove ads for ivory

Conservationists have urged internet giant Google to remove thousands of advertisements promoting products made from whales and elephants.

Seized ivory tusks are displayed during a Hong Kong Customs press conference on January 4, 2013. Conservationists have urged internet giant Google to remove thousands of advertisements promoting products made from whales and elephants.

Campaign group The Environmental Investigation Agency said Tuesday that it had written to Google CEO Larry Page last month appealing for the removal of more than 1,400 ads promoting whale products and 10,000 ads for elephant ivory products on its Japanese shopping site.

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  • upena

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    Discussion 2 : 06 Mar 2013 at 06.182

    Get the Tourism Authority of Thailand to stop promoting elephant rides, elephant round-ups, and elephants in general.

  • shopwow

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    Discussion 1 : 05 Mar 2013 at 23.171

    Please Enlighten Me: I do not believe in killing animals. But I hear so much rumpus about elephants and tusks and tusks and elephants. And then it is okay to kill big crocodiles just to skin them and make bags and purses with that skin. It is okay for the street stall in Bangkok to hang a 4 foot shark on his stall and then slowly cut pieces of it to be cooked and sold to relishing diners. It is okay for huge cute pigs to be crammed into trucks and sent from upcountry to be killed and eaten in Bangkok. People call me horrible names when I say such things but, what makes killing an elephant more disgusting than killing a crocodile.

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