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End Bear Bile Farming

Around China and Vietnam

1,000 doctorsWorld Conservation Congress in bile in the tourist area of Ha Long
South Korea in September.Bay. In June, we launched a further
sign pledge to
campaign with the Korean Animal
Heal without Harm
Awards forWelfare Association to inform tourists
and travel agencies in South Korea
‘Moon Bear’
that taking bear bile into the country

“Moon Bear”, an undercover from China was illegal.
documentary on Chinese bear

bile farms launched at an Animals Eye specialists

Asia press conference in February,
won the “Best Educational Value” treat bears

ilm prize at the Fifth China Ya’an Veterinary ophthalmology
International Panda, Animals and
specialists from the Animal Health
Nature Film Week.
Trust, UK, performed eye checks
and surgeries at our rescue centres
The ilm also won Best Director,
in China and Vietnam in April,
Grand Jury, and Best Charity Film improving the eyesight of a number
Production awards at The One
of bears and helping one see again
Foundation’s charity ilm festival
after years of blindness.
ceremony in Beijing. The One
Foundation was founded by actor,
Moon bear week
producer and martial artist Jet Li.
In April, over 1,000 Chinese
On 22 April, World Earth Day,
doctors attending the 8th Shanghai New cub house –
International Forum of Infection Animals Asia launched “Love
Moon Bears Week” in Chengdu
Control in Shandong province and bear kitchen
signed our pledge not to prescribe and held promotional events in

bear bile to their patients. Animals Rescued bear cubs in Vietnam now Beijing, Shanghai, Tianjin and
have their own dedicated Dalian.
Asia met with doctors at the event
and provided information on the accommodation with the opening
of our irst cub house in 2012.
cruelty involved in the bear farming US Illustrator

industry and the health risks of
consuming bile. These pledges are Dens and enclosures are designed visits sanctuary
to accommodate the cubs’
vital to our work to end bile farming In August, Ed Young, the award-
various stages of growth until their
as most bear bile consumed in winning American illustrator of
China is prescribed by doctors to integration with adult bears.
children’s book “Moon Bear”,
patients in hospitals.visited our bear rescue centre
In China, we opened a new bear
kitchen to replace the food in Chengdu and attended press
By end-2012, 40 pharmacies events in Chengdu and Beijing
around China had also joined our preparation area that was
to mark the launch of the book’s
Healing without Harm campaign, destroyed by the 2008 earthquake.
translation into Chinese.
pledging not to sell bear bile and to
promote herbal alternatives.Targetting bear
Millions of railway commuters in
the Chinese cities of Guangzhou
bile tourists
IUCN resolutionand Chongqing saw more of
In February, Animals Asia and
Young’s work on our new
A resolution calling for an end the Vietnamese authorities anti-bear-bile posters when the

to bear bile farming was passed collaborated on a public- two cities donated 120 advertising
at the International Union for awareness campaign to spaces along the Metro line for

Conservation of Nature (IUCN)discourage the illegal sale of bearAugust and September.

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