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Yahoo Japan defies calls to rethink online ivory trade

Part of a 700 kilogramme ivory haul seized by Togolese police in 2013. California-based Yahoo, which bans the sale of endangered animal products, says it can't force Yahoo Japan to change. FILE PHOTO | EMILE KOUTON |

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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