No bear left behind

A bear looking through a cage to camera with paws on the cage bars

Since committing in 2017 to end bear bile farming, the Government of Vietnam has made huge progress towards its goal. In partnership with Animals Asia, the bear bile industry in Vietnam has been dismantled. By the end of 2026 it will be over.

But for the last survivors of this terrible practice, it is too long to wait. After decades in cages, suffering physical abuse and emotional neglect, they are barely holding on. Every day without the food, love and medical care they so desperately need, is shortening their life.

Why are bears still in cages?

Although extracting bile from bears is illegal, it remains legal to keep bears at a private residence. This is why every bear rescue must be individually negotiated. And why every rescue takes months to achieve. Inspections carried out between May and July 2025 found 156 bears kept in this way. Time is running out for them. We must act now.

It ends with them

The last bile bears have survived devastating abuse. When bear bile farming in Vietnam is finally consigned to history, let it be with as many survivors of the trade as possible living out their lives at Animals Asia’s sanctuary.

Please add your voice

Please join us in asking the Government Of Vietnam for one more act of kindness for the last bears still trapped in farm cages. By completing the letter template below you will show that the world cares about the fate of Vietnam’s last bile bears.

Every letter will be shared with the Government of Vietnam. You can add your own additions to the letter if you would like, but you don’t have to. In order to achieve our goal of getting the bears to sanctuary it is crucial that all messages remain respectful. Thank you for taking action.

To H.E. Prime Minister of Vietnam, Pham Minh Chinh

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Thank you for your leadership in guiding Viet Nam towards a future without bear bile farming, and for your commitment to ending the practice in 2026. From making bile extraction from bears illegal, to gifting land in National Parks for bear rescue centres, under your leadership Viet Nam is pioneering a kinder future for animals in Asia. I sincerely hope others will follow your example.

Government support for public awareness campaigns and educational programs in schools is helping to ensure that the positive changes you have delivered are sustainable, and demonstrating to the world that there is no place for bear bile farming in modern Viet Nam.

It is only with the support of the Viet Nam Government, that Animals Asia has been able to rescue, heal and care for hundreds of former bile bears at specialist sanctuaries built on land gifted by the Government. I wish to offer my heartfelt thanks to you for all of these powerful actions.

You are so close to the historic day when bear bile farming in Viet Nam is eradicated. I have read that the recent survey found just 156 bears still in cages at private residences.  I am writing to implore you not to let all of your great progress be over-shadowed by the tragedy of these remaining bears not getting to the sanctuaries you have supported. But instead dying in a solitary cage from the effects of confinement and years of repeated bile extraction on a former bile farm.

Please undertake one more act of kindness. Please end all exemptions to keeping bears at a private residence, and in doing so enable the transfer of all remaining bears to Animals Asia’s sanctuaries so that they can receive the expert care and medical treatment they desperately need.

It is clear that you had no choice but to allow this exemption when there was nowhere to transfer rescued bears to. Now that Animals Asia’s second bear sanctuary in Bach Ma National Park is fully operational there is enough room for every last bear.

Please continue to demonstrate your leadership and compassion for your country’s moon bears with one more act of kindness. Please do not let bear bile farming die out as the final 156 bears die in their farm cages. Let Viet Nam’s eradication of bear bile farming be celebrated around the world with the last bile bear arriving at Bach Ma Bear Rescue Centre.

Your support can help transform a difficult chapter into a powerful legacy of progress and humanity.

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Thank you for your leadership in guiding Viet Nam towards a future without bear bile farming, and for your commitment to ending the practice in 2026. From making bile extraction from bears illegal, to gifting land in National Parks for bear rescue centres, under your leadership Viet Nam is pioneering a kinder future for animals in Asia. I sincerely hope others will follow your example.

Government support for public awareness campaigns and educational programs in schools is helping to ensure that the positive changes you have delivered are sustainable, and demonstrating to the world that there is no place for bear bile farming in modern Viet Nam.

It is only with the support of the Viet Nam Government, that Animals Asia has been able to rescue, heal and care for hundreds of former bile bears at specialist sanctuaries built on land gifted by the Government. I wish to offer my heartfelt thanks to you for all of these powerful actions.

You are so close to the historic day when bear bile farming in Viet Nam is eradicated. I have read that the recent survey found just 156 bears still in cages at private residences.  I am writing to implore you not to let all of your great progress be over-shadowed by the tragedy of these remaining bears not getting to the sanctuaries you have supported. But instead dying in a solitary cage from the effects of confinement and years of repeated bile extraction on a former bile farm.

Please undertake one more act of kindness. Please end all exemptions to keeping bears at a private residence, and in doing so enable the transfer of all remaining bears to Animals Asia’s sanctuaries so that they can receive the expert care and medical treatment they desperately need.

It is clear that you had no choice but to allow this exemption when there was nowhere to transfer rescued bears to. Now that Animals Asia’s second bear sanctuary in Bach Ma National Park is fully operational there is enough room for every last bear.

Please continue to demonstrate your leadership and compassion for your country’s moon bears with one more act of kindness. Please do not let bear bile farming die out as the final 156 bears die in their farm cages. Let Viet Nam’s eradication of bear bile farming be celebrated around the world with the last bile bear arriving at Bach Ma Bear Rescue Centre.

Your support can help transform a difficult chapter into a powerful legacy of progress and humanity.

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