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End Bear Bile Farming

Together we can make it happen

When we irst started working to close the notorious bear
farms at halong Bay in Vietnam, it looked hopeless.
The bears at our Chengdu sanctuary
chomped through over
213,000

But perseverance, partnerships with the local authorities, and
community outreach led us to the point in 2015 where we kg of fruit
and veggies in 2016.
closed down the last farm and made the whole province bear
bile free.

With your help, we can do the same in Phung Thuong.
‘
I’m so pleased to be ambassador for a
hands up who loves moon bears!
charity that’s completely stolen my heart.
’
They sang, they cheered, they high-ived – hundreds Moon bears are wonderful.

more children awake to the beauty of moon bears and the
pressing need to protect them.
Peter Egan
Actor and Animals Asia Ambassador

The children are at Vietnam’s Phung Thuong Primary School, in
an area where over 200 bears are held on bile farms – an area
we’re targeting in our new campaign.

This is one of the most effective ways your support is helping
to end the horror of bear bile farming – we’re talking to the very
young right through to university students throughout Vietnam

and China. And we’re inviting students to our sanctuaries...

In Vietnam alone in 2016, over 1,000 university and school

students heard our presentations on bear protection. And more
than 2,300 students from 41 universities and schools visited
our sanctuary.

Hong Kong calligrapher Sandra Pang and her uncle, traditional

Chinese painter Yeung Chi Ho, raised much-needed funds and
awareness for the animals in 2016 – creating and selling their
artwork and running classes. Thank you Sandra and Uncle Ho.

High ives and high hopes – Jill shares her love of moon
Show and tell
bears with children in Vietnam.

‘It’s clear that these children have an
Just telling people to stop using bear bile is never going to
inherent passion for protecting local work. We need to show them why.

wildlife, and they see as plain as we do
your support allows us to do this. We’re going into

communities to explain why bear farming is so bad – for that bears should be free, not caged and
consumers as well as for the bears.
’
exploited for their bile.

Then they can see for themselves that this cruel, unnecessary
practice must end.
Jill Robinson 69,000

Founder and CEo
In 2016, we handed out in Vietnam’s Phung Thuong village:
• 2,470 booklets promoting herbal alternatives to bear bile That’s the number of hours 42 bear
• 1,200 brochures with information about laws
workers at our Vietnam sanctuary

protecting bears
observed the bears resting, tumbling
• 4,000 children’s brochures
and snoozing. Monitoring the bears’
• 1,000 bottles of medicinal herbal rub made from bear
behaviour for subtle changes is vital
bile alternatives
for their health and well-being.

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