CANON REFUSES TO CONDEMN WHALING
Environmental organisation Greenpeace has written to Mister Fujio Mitarai, the CEO of Japanese camera manufacturer Canon, urging the company to sign a statement condemning the Japanese whaling program. Mister Mtarai has refused to sign the statement.

Canon is one of the world's best-known users of wildlife in their brand marketing. Since 1981 Canon has run full-page advertisements in National Geographic magazine entitled "Wildlife as Canon Sees it", featuring endangered animals around the world, and the company receives much kudos as a Conservation Partner of global environmental organisation WWF.

It's disappointing that Canon won't stand up for the wildlife it uses so publicly to further its market position.

You can send your own letter to Mister Mitari urging him to help save the whales here