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Campaign grows

People say ‘no’

Our campaign to end bear — and more government oficials We’ve always known this was

farming in China and Vietnam and celebrities added their voices going to be a long, hard battle,
took some major steps forward to the growing calls for an end to
but we have never felt closer
in 2011, with much happening bear farming.to reaching our goal — and

in both the public sphere and over the past 12 months, our
behind the scenes.In 2011, we brought home 30
more bears from the terrible bile teams in China and Vietnam did
an amazing job of galvanising
Most of the action was driven by industry, including our 100th bear
support for our campaign to end
the people themselves, showing in Vietnam, whom we named
a deinite shift in focus — animal- “Dream”. This brought to 381 the this terrible industry.

welfare issues matter in China total number of bears rescued One of the many highlights of the

today like never before and over since our irst sanctuary opened year, was when we co-hosted
the past 12 months we’ve seen in China in 2000.
a reception at the UK House of
an amazing rise in support for our Commons for key

campaign to end bear farming.traditional medicine

The internet played a major role, practitioners from
around the world
and so too did our Animals Asia
ahead of the World
China team, who found ever more
innovative and effective ways to Federation of
Chinese Medicine’s
reach more people.
Congress at the

The traditional Chinese medicine Hall of Westminster.
community, both in China (See the full story on

and around the world, was page 9.)

particularly supportive in 2011

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