19 bears rescued from acerbity acreage horror

An animal rights activist group has rescued 19 Moon bears from an illegal bile farm in Vietnam and transferred them to a rescue center. The bears were found at an illegal Taiwanese-owned operation in southern Vietnam by the Animals Asia Foundation where they were living in small cages converted from metal shipping cargo containers. Many of these black bears, some standing 6 feet tall, have been caged since being snatched from the wild as cubs up to seven years ago. "It is the first time that we have rescued a large number of bears, 19 bears in total, and also it is the first time that we have to travel such a long distance to rescue them." The bears were driven two-thousand kilometres north to a rescue centre outside Hanoi where they joined 29 others. Bear bile has been used for thousands of years in Asia to treat fevers, pain, inflammation and many other ailments. A synthetic version of it's active ingredient ursodeoxycholic acid is used in Western medicine for treating gall stones and liver ailments. The bears in such farms are typically housed in small cages, and the bile sucked from their gall bladders using crude catheters. Many of them die slowly from infections or liver ailments, including cancer. The bile is then smuggled worldwide and is especially sought after in China. "These bears, if you ask the owner he will say that he kept these 19 bears for pets, just like we kept dogs and cats, but we found out that one of the bears has an abscess on its stomach, and we ...



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