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Help Stop Bear Bile Farming!
Meghan Doumbos
Help Stop Bear Bile Farming!
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BEAR BILE FARMING – Animal Cruelty
9,000 bears are kept for bear bile farming at any one time an increase from the previous number of 7002 bears one year ago.
Hi Everyone,
Im writing today to make you aware of what happens to the bears during bear bile farming and hopefully shock you enough with the facts to make you stand up and help. This is a cruel and inhumane procedure and they need your help to stop this.
What is it?
Bear bile farming is the extraction of a substance called bile from the bears stomachs to be used in products such as wine, makeup, chinese medicine etc.
How do they do this?
On most farms, surgery to enable bile extraction is carried out by farm owners with no veterinary training.
They cut open the bear and implant a machine with a tube that sticks out of their stomach for the bile to come out of. For every two successful bile fistula implantations, there are another two or three bear deaths due to complications and infections.
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When the bile milking is performed on the bears who are put and kept in cages so small they cannot move, it is extremely painful.
Between the ages of five and ten, bears may stop producing bile. They are then put in another cage, where they wait, either until death comes through sickness or starvation, or they are killed for their gall bladders.
Some bears are even kept alive in the cages and they sell the paws of the bear one by one keeping the bear alive until all four paws have been sold and cut off to make bear paw soup..... The bear is then left to die.
The Chinese government has steadfastly refused to bow to public and international pressure to stop this horrendous cruelty and close these farms.
Illegal bear products were most readily available in the U.S. (91%), Malaysia (78%), Japan (77%), and Singapore (74%), closely followed by Canada (67%), Indonesia (62%), Australia (49%) and Taiwan (30%).
This is an alarming number and needs to be stopped!
There is an organization called free the bears inc. They have rescue centres in India, Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam, Laos and Indonesia. .
My goal is to sponsor one bear for 6 months, to help with supplies etc. This is $400.
I then want to donate another $200 to help save another bear.
Ive set my goal to $600 but the more money raised the more of a difference can be made!
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Free The Bears Ltd
Free the Bears mission is to protect, preserve and enrich the lives of bears throughout the world. Over the past 25 years we've helped rescue over 950 bears. We currently operate rescued bear sanctuaries in Cambodia, Vietnam and Laos and care for over 230 rescued bears. We've helped bring the centuries old Indian 'dancing' bear tradition to an end, removing over 500 bears from the streets of India and providing alternative livelihoods to the nomadic Kalandar gypsy families who had forced the bears to beg (the first Kalander student recently graduated university).
We work closely with our government partners to strengthen wildlife laws and enforcement and run education programmes which have helped hundreds of thousands of people learn of the importance of wildlife conservation. Our research and cub care programmes are world leaders, providing invaluable learnings which will help conserve the vulnerable bear species we work with - sun bears (the world's smallest and least understood bear species), moon bears (or Asiatic black bears) and Indian sloth bears.
Free the Bears began after our founder, Perth grandmother Mary Hutton, learnt of the horrific practice of bile extraction of caged moon bears in Asia. Since this time we've rescued many bears from the bear bile trade and prevented the industry getting a foothold in Cambodia. In the coming years we hope to see an end to bear bile extraction and farming in Vietnam and Laos, where just under 1,000 bears are still kept in terrible circumstances.
Despite our achievements, we have a long way to go to ensure the bears and other wildlife of SE Asia are protected and preserved. With limited suitable habitat available, our commitment to the rescued bears at our sanctuaries is lifelong, which can last up to 40 years. This requires a huge financial commitment - any help you can give is greatly appreciated. Please donate or register as a Bear Carer, and please come to visit our sanctuaries and see what we've been able to achieve. Thank you.
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