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You’re Making Bear Farming History,
continued from the cover

contiuned from the cover
his irst-of-its-kind

agreement, sets out a roadmap to

a bile farm-free Vietnam including

plans for Animals Asia to work

in partnership with the Vietnam
Administration of Forestry, to

rescue and rehome the bears still

enduring the daily agony of bile

extraction.

Defeating Vietnam’s once-
booming bile trade has not been

easy. In contrast to China’s bile

industry where bear farming is

legal and large-scale, there are few
farms in Vietnam with more than

ten bears. It is far more common

for one or two bears to be kept

out of sight, in outbuildings or

backyard cages, making law
enforcement, and monitoring

Halong Bay
of the remaining bears near

impossible.
You’re a hero to every abused bear
Animals Asia has been
rescuing bears in Vietnam for
in Vietnam. Thank you!
more than a decade, but until now,

The Long and Winding Road to Victory in
V

Ater 18 years of hard work, the sufering of Vietnam’s ‘bile bears’ will soon be over. his is how yo
u

1999
2005

Bile farm cruelty exposed
Bear farming banned in Vietnam

Our investigations expose the horror of farmers Yet a loophole in the law means illegal

in Vietnam cutting into bear’s abdomens to bile extraction continues.

extract bile.
NoVemBer 2005

2000-2005
Government agrees to

Bear bile farming sanctuary

explodes
An agreement between Vietnam
Bear numbers grow to government and Animals Asia sees

4,300, from just 400 in construction start for a

1999. Our undercover rescue centre able house up

investigations continue, to 200 rescued ex-bile bears.

so do our negotiations
with the government.

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