Bear bile farm

On bile farms , bears are seen as mere production units, only worth the amount of bile they produce. Animals Asia has also seen instances of old or very sick . Bile bears , sometimes called battery bears , are bears kept in captivity to harvest their bile ,. The practice of factory farming bears for bile has been extensively . Consumer interest in farmed bear bile seems to be declining in Vietnam, according to a new study. An Asiatic black bear rides on a truck to a sanctuary in Vietnam.

It was rescued from an illegal bile farm. Photogrpah by HOANG DINH NAM, . For years, the brown bear lived at a bile farm in China. Like thousands of other bears , she was packed into a tiny cage, never seeing the sun or . We are working in Asia to end the bear bile industry.

We campaign to stop the intense, unjustified suffering of bears used in bear bile farming. Vietnam and South Korea are moving to end bear farming , but Beijing appears to have dug in its heels. SHOCKING images show inside a sickening farm in Vietnam where bears are kept in tiny cages as bile from their gallbladders is continuously .

On most farms, surgery to enable bile extraction is carried out by farm . Despite increasing international outrage, extracting bile from endangered black bears is still rife in south-east Asia. Our partner Education for Nature (ENV) fights to curb the demand for bear bile and put a stop to bear bile farming. Read about a day in the life . China pledged today to rescue 5bears held in cages for their bile as a first step in wiping out the age-old practice, Chinese researchers and . After decades of activism against bear bile farms , a Chinese pharmaceutical company has announced it is developing a synthetic alternative. Hoa Tra and Hoa Lan are two of an estimated 9bears caged on about 2private bile farms across the country.

College-level overview of the practice of bear farming in Asian nations, as well as the international trade in bear bile. In China, the figure is in the . Discussion of the laws regulating hunting . More than 10Asian bears, including sun bears and brown bears, are kept in awful conditions on bear bile farms throughout the continent. In partnership with the Bioresource Research Centre we aim to end bear exploitation. Help us tackle the bear bile industry to stop the cruel exploitation of. The Chinese Government appears to have dug in its heels on bear farming.

They work tirelessly to educate people about . Bear bile farming is one of the cruellest abuses of animals in the world and is of dubious medicinal value. In South Korea the bear bile industry is not traditional. It began around years ago with the first imports of bears for exploitation on farms.

Bears on bile farms in China, Vietnam, and South Korea endure torturously painful lives constricted to metal cages and restraints while bile is .