Yahoo! apparently is selling ivory. PLEASE tell them to STOP IT, GODDAMMIT!!!

[Flaxbee]

Here is the link to the petition. *** BE WARNED: there is a distressing photo at the link ***

https://secure.avaaz.org/en/yahoo_ivory_loc/?bnCCggb&v=71540&cl=9275326975

The ivory trade is pushing elephants to the edge of extinction, and Yahoo is making a killing from trinket sales in Japan! But right now we have a chance to end this corporate complicity.

Several big brands like Google and Amazon are refusing to sell ivory. Yahoo is one of the few major online markets left. But we could influence that decision. Right now Yahoo is losing some of its best employees, and the CEO is offering millions to convince people to stay. If we threaten to lift the lid on Yahoo’s bloody secret, she could lose staff even faster, and may reconsider the costs of this cruel trade.

[KamaAina]

1. For those of you in $iliValley, they're at 701 First Ave. in Sunnyvale.

Near the Lockheed Martin light rail station. Just sayin'.

[whatthehey]

2. Pre-ban or post-ban origin?

The more that is done to shut down trade in pre-ban items, of which there are many many thousands if not millions, the more we will jack up the price as people seek grey and black market sources. The more the price for ivory of any kind, even that already made generations ago from elephants long dead, goes up, the more it incentivizes poaching as people react to the S curve with higher prices, regardless of cost/risk.


The best defense against ivory poaching is to make pre-ban trading, certified and audited, as easy and low cost as possible and make poaching as risky and expensive as possible. That keeps the S curve as low as possible.

[jberryhill]

3. "Yahoo! apparently is selling ivory"

No link to ivory for sale on Yahoo!. Just the allegation.

[KentuckyWoman]

4. Yeah, I used every search term I could think of and nothing came up.

I'd be interested in something to back up the allegation as well.

[CBGLuthier]

9. According to the site it is in Japan

http://www.yahoo.jp


Now if someone who can read it wants to search that site maybe they are selling it there.

[jberryhill]

5. Do you have any support for the proposition that they are selling ivory?

[Nye Bevan]

6. I had no idea that Yahoo even sold stuff (nt)

[FrodosPet]

8. Yahoo who?

[madinmaryland]

7. Hi Flaxbee. Thanks for the info. Hope all is going well for you.

I didn't even know Yahoo? existed. They are so 2000.

[Flaxbee]

11. hey mad,

how's it going? Saw the dog post -- hope things are better

[Flaxbee]

10. Notice the OP: "apparently"

If they are, they must stop. If they aren't, they shouldn't start.