{"id":2136,"date":"2008-01-24T20:39:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-24T20:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldfishing.nfdtesting.uk\/icefish-conference\/2008\/01\/24\/greenpeace-calls-on-canon-to-defend-the-whales\/"},"modified":"2008-01-24T20:39:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-24T20:39:00","slug":"greenpeace-calls-on-canon-to-defend-the-whales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/news\/industry-news\/greenpeace-calls-on-canon-to-defend-the-whales\/","title":{"rendered":"Greenpeace calls on Canon to defend the whales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Greenpeace today launched a worldwide appeal calling on Canon&#8217;s customers to urge the company to change<\/p>\n<p>it and the government&#8217;s minds and add its voice to the international call for an end to the hunt, writes a statement from the NGO.<\/p>\n<p>In a letter to Mr Mitarai, dated January 10th, Greenpeace asked him to endorse the following statement: &#8220;Canon is committed to building a better world for future generations, and does not support the hunting of endangered or threatened species with anything other than a camera.<\/p>\n<p>Canon believes the lethal whaling research programme in the Southern Ocean should be ended, and replaced with a non-lethal research programme.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Canon replied on 22 January 2008, claiming to recognise &#8220;the importance of protecting endangered wildlife.&#8221; However, their letter concluded, &#8220;scientific opinion about research whaling varies&#8230; we will not sign the statement you have sent us.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canon, the worlds top digital camera maker and major sponsor of projects to save endangered species, hasrefused a Greenpeace request to condemn the Japanese governments whaling programme.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-2136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2136"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=2136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}