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You’re Making Bear Farming History

A ground-breaking agreement between Animals Asia and the Vietnamese government has

been signed, bringing the dream of a bear farm-free Vietnam within pawing distance. And it’s

all thanks to you.

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n 19 July 2017, Animals At the time, those bears were

Asia signed a historic microchipped so that in theory,

Memorandum of
the government could monitor

Understanding with the any bears being kept or purchased
Vietnamese government which illegally.

outlines a plan to jointly end bear But more than a decade on,

bile farming in Vietnam. Forever.
around 1,000 bears remain on

Bile farming was strictly bile farms and in private homes.

outlawed in Vietnam in 2005, Bile farmers have exploited the
but a loophole in the law allowed lack of checks, and the ’ownership History in the making! Thank you from every

farmers to keep the bears they loophole’, and continued to harvest bear in Vietnam.

already owned as ‘pets’.
bile from bears illegally.
Continued on page 2, turn page >>

The Bear Facts, Nine Lives Saved, Winner Announced,
Inside this issue....
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