A website of Yahoo Japan Corp is seen on a computer screen in Tokyo August 19, 2009. REUTERS/Stringer/Files
TOKYO/SAN FRANCISCO: Yahoo Japan, the country's biggest online auction site, is rebuffing calls to end online ivory trading despite Yahoo Inc CEO Marissa Mayer's misgivings over facilitating a business blamed for the illegal slaughter of African elephants.
Yahoo Japan doesn't accept that ivory sold on its platform – supposedly imported into Japan before a 1989 ban on international shipments – is a factor behind the sharp rise in poaching on the African savannah in recent years.
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