June 12, 2013 Ron Bell, Esq. General Counsel Yahoo! Inc. 701 First Avenue Sunnyvale, CA 94089-6503 Tel: 1 408 349 3300 Dear Mr. Bell, Please find attached a copy of the letter, with two enclosures, couriered today to Yahoo Inc.’s President and CEO, Marissa Mayer. Yahoo! Inc., as a larger shareholder in Yahoo! Japan, is currently earning profits from Yahoo! Japan’s sale of elephant ivory and whale and dolphin products. We are writing to urge Yahoo! Inc. to help protect the world’s endangered whales, dolphins, and elephants, commercially hunted in violation of international laws to supply the Japanese market, by urgently directing Yahoo! Japan to cease to carry ads for these endangered and threatened species. There are currently thousands of advertisements for elephant ivory and hundreds of advertisements for whale meat on the Yahoo! Japan Shopping site. Please feel free to contact us if you need any further information. Sincerely,
Allan Thornton President Environmental Investigation Agency P.O. Box 53343 Washington, DC 20009 allanthornton@eia-global.org Tel: 1 202 483 6621 www.eia-global.org
Kitty Block Vice President Humane Society International 2100 L Street NW Washington, DC 20037 kblock@hsi.org Tel: 1 202 452 1100 www.hsi.org