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End Bear Bile Farming

Bear sized steps

Another year of amazing progress thanks to the incredible
support of people like you from all around the world. Because
of your kindness, we were able to launch our most ambitious What we do
In China, where bear bile farming is still legal under
and far-reaching project yet – the conversion of a bear farm in
Nanning, China into a place of peace for the bears.
certain conditions, Animals Asia focuses on public
awareness and reducing demand for bile. We also work
with the authorities to close the worst of the farms and
Our celebrity friends too were superstars for the animals in
2014, speaking out like never before. Through them, our lobby for a ban on the industry. We have a Bear Rescue
cheeky campaign, Let a Bear Sh!t in the Woods, reached an Centre in Chengdu, which has given sanctuary to 285
incredible 40 million people around the world!
bears to date.

It’s when all of us come together that we can achieve real
change for the bears.

‘On my irst day at the sanctuary, I knew ‘Taking care of the bears is just like

I had come to the right place. Six years taking care of our own kids. We should

of working here has given me a new love them and look after them. I have

understanding of life itself and even more become more sympathetic since working

reason to love this work. Here, black here. It makes me very happy to be able

bears get to show their true beauty. I see ’ to take such good care of the bears. :-)

them arrive in tiny cages with cracked
Liang Mei-Lu
paw pads and later see them swimming
Bear Worker, nanning bear farm
happily in the water and running around

with friends, their black coats healthy and
Our Chengdu bears
’and shiny.
61,320
slurped down
32,850

Lu Wen Juan
marshmallows to hide the
Bear team Leader, Chengdu sanctuary
nasty taste of medicines.
vitamin-packed fruit shakes

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