Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Microchip project enables new life for farmed bear




The sedated bear is carefully removed from the farm. He is now on his way to a well-run sanctuary



An Asiatic black bear held illegally on a
bear bile farm is on his way to a sanctuary today, thanks to a WSPA-funded microchipping and monitoring program.

In 2005, the Vietnamese government banned the extraction of bile from bears in farms and outlawed the trading of bile products, a major step towards closing this unnecessary industry for good.

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