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End Bear Bile Farming

Tuffy the moon bear says thank you in Our China bears slurped though
29,565
leaps and bounds!
delicious

Tuffy’s sheer exuberance playing in his pool – just days fruit and rice shakes in 2016.
after he took his irst steps outside – shows just what your

kindness means.

Over 2 million people watched our video of Tuffy jumping for joy
in his pool at our Vietnam sanctuary.
‘I’m honored to be an ambassador for

the extraordinary and very endangered
This beautiful bear spent years in a tiny cage. Now, because
you cared, his pain is gone and so is his stiling captivity. Finally moon bear. This little known and

Tuffy can be the bear he was born to be.
magical animal is in urgent need of our

’
support now.

Ali Macgraw

Actress and Animals Asia’s uS Ambassador

A big bear hug to Australian supporter Bev Johnston
who named and sponsors Raymond, and also sponsors

Emy. “I told myself that however bear bile farming made
me feel, it was nothing compared to the living hell the
bears were going through. I knew I’d be no help if I tried

to hide from this terrible knowledge.”

In case you missed it, here’s the clip that made Tuffy an
internet sensation: www.animalsasia.org/Tuffy

you’re all rock stars!

Tanya Lee from Australia’s CorriLee Foundation put together an

amazing fundraising night for Animals Asia called “Beresford
for Bears”. In the line-up were Animals Asia Ambassador (and
Australia’s most recorded guitarist) Peter Northcote, emcee

Mikey Robins and Andrew O'Keefe (who performed a tribute to
Autumn (left) and Kay were among 15 rescued bears who his uncle – the late great Johnny O’Keefe).

went outside for the irst time in 2016.
Enormous thanks to everyone involved – and a big thank you to
all you amazing entertainers around the globe who are making
such an incredible effort for the animals.
The legal lowdown

It’s still legal to cage bears and extract their bile under certain

conditions in China. It’s also legal to sell bear bile within China,
but not to export it. In Vietnam, it’s illegal to sell bear bile or
extract it from bears, but it’s still legal to keep bears in cages as
“pets” or to display to tourists.

Planting a kinder future

In 2016, you helped fund three traditional medicine gardens
in Vietnam’s ha giang, Tay ninh and Vinh Phuc provinces to
grow and promote 32 herbal alternatives to bear bile.

In total, the three gardens have more than 2,690 trees of nearly
30 types that grow roots, bark and leaves that can be used in
place of bear bile.
Peter Northcote and friends – rocking it for the bears.

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