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BBC News - Google must drop ivory adverts say campaigners - 0 views

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  • Campaigners say Google are encouraging the poaching of elephants by running advertisements promoting ivory products.
  • more than 10,000 ads about ivory were running on Google's Japanese shopping site.
  • They have written to the internet giant asking for their removal.
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  • adverts relating to endangered species were not allowed on their sites.
  • They found more than 1,400 of these types of ads
  • ads on Google's wholly owned Japanese shopping site, they found more than 10,000.
  • one of the world’s richest and successful technology companies with such incredible resources had taken no action to enforce their own policies
  • They say that the adverts are still up and running.
  • Dealing with the ivory issues is one of the key tasks for this meeting of Cites
  • The sale of elephant tusks was banned back in 1989.
  • around 30,000 elephants a year are still being killed to meet the demand for trinkets and carvings that are often sold to tourists
  • The internet has given a huge boost to the ivory business.
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