For nine bears in Vietnam, global support has replaced fear, pain and sickness with good health, open space and firm friends.
After cruelty comes sanctuary for six bears rescued from Vietnam’s bile industry who take their first steps on grass after a lifetime in a cage.
Bear bile farming was touted as a cure to poaching, but research again shows it has fuelled demand and decimated wild populations.
Campaign to end the dog meat trade results in a ban on killings – how did Korea get here, and will the same techniques work in other countries?
Chimpanzees are our closest living relatives, yet while they care for the defenceless, human activities are pushing them to extinction.
Funding from the UK’s Olsen Animal Trust ends rides for three elephants and enables a radical new cruelty-free approach to elephant tourism.
Media and government officials were in Animals Asia’s Vietnam Bear Rescue Centre in Vinh Phuc province Tuesday to mark the launch of two publications designed to help the country eradicate bear bile farming.
With accusations of wildlife crime yet to be answered, calls for an animal performance ban in Vietnam grow louder.
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