Some researchers have expressed concerns that ending the commercial farming of bears, while demand for bear bile persists, could lead to increased hunting pressure on wild bear populations. In this ...

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primarily to house Asiatic black bears rescued from bear-bile farming. Although Vietnam outlawed bear-bile extraction in 2005, many farms continue to operate illegally. The bile is used as a ...

This summer, the Vietnamese government agreed to a memorandum of understanding with the nonprofit Animals Asia to finally end bear bile farming in the country. On bile farms, the bears, primarily ...

In Vietnam, where bear bile farming hit a peak of almost 4,500 captive animals 15 years ago, many of the moon bears we rescue have spent decades trapped in tiny metal cages, surviving on scraps of ...