HONG KONG––The Animals Asia Foundation on July 31, 2014 cautiously welcomed a report that KaiBao Pharmaceutical, the world’s largest maker of bear bile pharmaceuticals, has embarked upon a five-year-plan to develop synthetic alternatives using byproducts from poultry slaughter. Reality is that there are already synthetic alternatives for every established use of bear bile […]
Vietnam Bear Rescue Centre fights takeover attempt by zoo promoter
HONG KONG, HANOI––The Animals Asia Foundation is fighting an audacious scheme allegedly advanced by Tam Dao National Park director Do Dinh Tien to evict Animals Asia and 104 moon bears from the Vietnam Bear Rescue Centre, on the edge of the park, and turn the facilities built at Animals Asia donor expense into a zoo. The Vietnam Bear […]
Ingesting bear bile can kill, warns top Vietnamese traditional doctor
HANOI––People’s Doctor Nguyen Xuan Huong, chair of the Traditional Medicine Association of Vietnam, on July 21, 2010 warned that consuming bear bile products can cause potentially fatal liver and kidney damage. Huong, who served two terms in the Vietnamese National Assembly, “joined Animals Asia’s campaign to end bear bile farming after seeing the shocking effects of bile consumption on […]
Care for bears in China
BEIJING, HONG KONG, SHANGHAI––China cares about bears. That was clear from nationwide outrage erupting in February 2002 after a 21-year-old engineering student poured sulfuric acid and caustic soda over five bears at the Beijing Zoo to see if bears are really stupid. International Fund for Animal Welfare representative Zhang Li offered help to the zoo […]