Read More: Bear Rescued from Years of Torture in a Bear Bile Farm Swims for the First Time Experts analyzed the attack and pointed to several contributing factors, including the lateness of the ...

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 ...

However, at the same time as this ruling, China approved the use of bear bile to treat coronavirus patients. Bear bile - a digestive fluid drained from living captive bears - has long been used in ...

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 ...