11-year-olds Martha, Irene and Gigi and nine-year-old Coco arrived at Manor Wildlife Park in St Florence from France on Friday, June 27. The bears, also known as moon bears, will now settle into their ...

11-year-olds Martha, Irene and Gigi and nine-year-old Coco arrived at Manor Wildlife Park in St Florence from France on ...

Four critically endangered Asian black bears, also known as moon bears, have arrived in Wales for the first time. Martha, ...

Over the past 20 years, Hai Phong has reduced the number of bears in captivity from 500 to just over 10, thanks to the ...

Animals Asia Of those 4,300 bears caged when bile farming was outlawed in 2005, 177 remain in the cages of Vietnam’s bile farms today, kept by the industry’s most stubborn holdouts.

The NGO previously spotted 20-30 caged bears in the now-closed bear bile farm, called Kao Liaw, in Laos’s capital, Vientiane, but Mabin said they don’t know what happened to the rest.

Bear farming will be fully prohibited in Korea starting today, and euthanasia of bears for reasons such as illness or bile extraction must now be conducted under the supervision of a veterinarian ...

"Bear bile farming is extremely cruel. Large amounts of their bile are extracted and turned into powders, capsules and ointments. "Bears in these bile facilities are often forced to endure painful ...

Hà said: "The 20-year journey to end bear bile farming has been a long journey. If it had been an easy task, it likely would not have taken so long." During the process, significant challenges emerged ...

Government-sanctioned bear bile farming began in China during the mid-1980s as a way to reduce poaching of wild sun bears and Asiatic black bears, both of which are considered vulnerable to ...

Asian countries have long touted the farms as a way to relieve pressure on wild bears traditionally poached for the bile trade. Korea developed the first one in 1980, and then they became popular ...