- ARAB NEWS
- 01 May 2025
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TOKYO: Yahoo Japan Corp. has decided to prohibit private individual users from selling animals and plants designated as endangered or near threatened species on its online auction website, sources have said.
Creatures subject to the new ban are over 4,000 species, including insects such as the “okuwagata” stag beetle, or dorcus hopei binodulosus, and aquatic animals such as the Japanese crayfish, which are on the Environment Ministry’s Red List.
Amid growing momentum for biodiversity conservation, Yahoo Japan drew up stricter criteria for the items that can be put up on its auction website. The new criteria will go into effect Sept. 29.
Meanwhile, the auction site operator plans to keep allowing certified vendors to sell species that they breed artificially.
Yahoo Japan already bans the sale on its auction site of mammals, birds and reptiles.
JIJI Press
