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Jasper’s gift: the real-life care bear

May 2, 2016 By Merritt Clifton

“Poster bear” for ending bile farming  Jasper,  30,  the moon bear who became “poster bear” for the Animals Asia Foundation campaign against farming bears to extract bile from their livers,  was euthanized on April 29,  2016 due to incurable cancer. “Moon bear Jasper spent 15 years in a Chinese bile farm crush cage,”  the Animals […]

Filed Under: Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Asia/Pacific, Asian religions, Beliefs, China, Conservation, Cultural, Culture & Animals, Endangered species, Habitat, Laws, Organizations, Other, Religion & philosophy, Sanctuaries, USA, Wildlife, Wildlife Tagged With: Animals Asia Foundation, Jill Robinson, Marc Bekoff, Merritt Clifton

Chinese activists thwart Canadian hope of selling seal meat to China

April 23, 2014 By Merritt Clifton

Trade deal “largely thwarted by animal rights activists”             HALIFAX,  Nova Scotia––Canadian fisheries minister Gail Shea admitted on the eve of the April 14 opening of the 2014 Atlantic Canada seal hunt that “a trade agreement to sell Canadian seal meat in China announced more than three years ago has been […]

Filed Under: Asia/Pacific, Canada, China, Food & agriculture, Marine life, Organizations, Seals, The Americas, Wildlife Tagged With: Gail Shea, Merritt Clifton, Peter Li

Bear bile farm to become a bear sanctuary

April 17, 2014 By Merritt Clifton

Had yet to tap bears             BEIJING––The Hong Kong-based Animals Asia Foundation on April 15,  2014 announced at a Beijing media conference that it will take custody of 130 moon bears at the financially troubled Nanning Bear Farm,  and will convert the farm into a sanctuary for about 100 bears. The […]

Filed Under: Asia/Pacific, China, Food & agriculture, Organizations, Wildlife Tagged With: Animals Asia Foundation, Jill Robinson, Merritt Clifton

Animals Asia Foundation saves Vietnam Bear Rescue Centre and halts Zimbabwe/China baby elephant deal––in same week

January 16, 2013 By Merritt Clifton

“This is a week we will never forget” HONG KONG,  HANOI,  HARARE––The Animals Asia Foundation on January 16,  2013 won a six-month battle against the ordered eviction of the Vietnam Bear Rescue Centre from the edge of Tam Dao National Park,  Vietnam––and just three days later won the cancellation of a controversial sale of baby […]

Filed Under: Africa, Asia/Pacific, China, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Exhibition, Organizations, Southeast Asia, Sub-Saharan, Vietnam, Zimbabwe, Zoos, Zoos Tagged With: Animals Asia Foundation, Jill Robinson, Merritt Clifton

Chinese activists object to Canadian deal to sell seal meat & oil to China

January 23, 2011 By Merritt Clifton

Sealers desperate to find markets BEIJING,  HALIFAX–Canadian Fisheries Minister Gail Shea on January 12,  2011 announced to news media by teleconference call from Beijing that the Canadian Food Inspection Agency and the Chinese Administration of Quality Supervision have reached an agreement which will allow Canadian sealers to export seal meat and oil to China for human consumption. Struggling to find new markets […]

Filed Under: Asia/Pacific, Canada, China, Food & agriculture, Marine life, Organizations, Seals, The Americas, Wildlife Tagged With: Gail Shea, Grace de Gabriel, Merritt Clifton

Bear rescue season follows tsunami

January 17, 2005 By Merritt Clifton

Wildlife SOS on the job AGRA,  CHENGDU––Wildlife SOS founder Kartick Satyanarayan spent most of the first two months of 2005 often literally up to his hips in post-tsunami swamp water and sometimes displaced salt water crocodiles,  gorged on human remains.  Still,  Satyanarayan did not forget that his primary objective for the year was to rescue […]

Filed Under: Asia/Pacific, China, India, Indian subcontinent, Organizations, Organizations, Wildlife Tagged With: Animals Asia Foundation, Jill Robinson, Kartick Satyanarayn, Merritt Clifton, Wildlife SOS

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