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Dear friends,

Welcome to our latest Review! Another year under our belt – and it was
one of the best on record thanks to your amazing support.

i really can’t thank you enough for what we achieved for the animals in
2015 – an entire Vietnamese province bear farm free, and 41 desperate
bears rescued. Now only empty cages remain in an area long known

for having the very worst bear farms.

The number of bears on bile farms in Vietnam is dropping fast – down from

over 4,000 in 2006 to around 1,200 today, and the country’s traditional
medicine association has promised a complete end to the use of bear bile
by 2020. So we’re conident that with your continued help, we really can

end the bear bile industry in this country.

one of our new arrivals in 2015 was cub murphy, who captured the
hearts of so many people around the world. This innocent little bear

was orphaned when poachers killed his mother. Thank goodness he’s
safe with us now and not locked away on a bile farm.

it’s these stories we want to share with you – because it’s your
support that’s making such a profound difference – to bears like
murphy and to other animals too. Don’t miss Tuffy’s story on p16, but

make sure you have some tissues ready!

Thank you for your faith and conidence in our work. For

shedding tears of joy and tears of sadness as we tackle the
problems head on. As ever, our promise to you, and to all the
animals we champion, is that we will never, ever give up....
until the cruelty ends.

With immense gratitude and warm bear hugs,

Jill Robinson MBE, Dr med vet hc, Hon LLD

Founder and CEO

PS: Cubs like Murphy could be in our care for up to 35
years. Please take a look at p18 to learn how you can help

the animals well into the future.

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