Bear bile farming is extremely cruel and bears rescued from these farms are often psychologically scarred," she said. "But this is one more bear that can live out the rest of his life in peace, ...

In bear bile farming, bile is painfully taken from Asiatic black bears and then sold to be used in black market medicines and tinctures, FOUR PAWS reported. The extraction and trade of bear bile ...

In recent years, the organization has rescued nearly 680 bears from bile farms across Vietnam and China, many showing signs of extreme trauma. “They have no free access to food or water.

Traditionally, bear bile was extracted from species in the wild, but when China’s bear population became endangered in the 1980s, the country’s bile farming practice emerged. The moon bear, or Asiatic ...

Vietnam banned bear bile extraction in 2005, but dozens of bear bile farms are still operating. In 2006, Vietnam held an estimated 4,000 bears in bile farms.

“Bears on farms often mistrust people because they think they’re coming to take their bile,” says Weng Yan Ng, ... stomping out the roots of bear-bile farming in the first place.

Today China, the main consumer of bear bile, keeps more than 10,000 bears in farms, a legal practice in the country. A worker prepares to drain the bile from a bear at a farm in China, which has ...

Bear bile harvesting remains legal in China, where the government says 7,000 bears are milked on about 250 farms, though animal welfare groups say the real number could be double that.

In this photo taken on Jan. 24, 2014, a bear stretches its forepaw through a cage at a bear farm in Dangjin, south of Seoul, South Korea. Several bears lie stacked on top of each other, as still ...

One of the main hurdles to ending bear bile farming in Vietnam has been finding space to re-home them. The sanctuary at Tam Dao has a capacity of 200 bears; it currently houses 199.