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the big news in 2014

We rescued
Our founder Jill Robinson
130
(who was born in
Nottingham, England),
was awarded a
Our anti-animal We opened four new
performance campaigns outdoor enclosures with 2nd
bears on a bile farm
in Nanning, China and
reached
dens for up to
began converting the 24m
80

farm into a sanctuary. Five honorary degree – this
more bears arrived at our one from the University of
Vietnam sanctuary.
Nottingham Ningbo, China.
Chinese people.
bears in Vietnam.

400
We trained over

We gave out
We taught over
1,685
15,000
50,000
animal management

staff in Chinese zoos
and gave animal welfare
more Chinese drug stores presentations to
lealets on issues like school students, mainly in
stopped selling bear bile, cockighting and animal China but also in Vietnam, 500
bringing the total number performances to tourists about the bears and our

to 1,945.
and locals in Vietnam.
work to save them.
Chinese vets.

2
150
We launched a
competition among
Around
60,000
500,000
Our
bear sanctuaries
received international
representatives from accreditation from the

government and animal people joined in our Global Federation of traditional medicine
protection groups from 43 outreach events on Animal Sanctuaries. Ours doctors in Vietnam to
Chinese cities met at our campuses, at music are the irst sanctuaries in promote the use of

6th China Dog Ownership festivals and community China and Vietnam to be 32 cruelty free herbal
Management Symposium.
centres around China.
recognised in this way.
alternatives to bear bile.

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