Bear Bile Farm

July 21, 2021

A worker extracts bile from a bear at a bear farm owned by Guizhentang Pharmaceutical in Huian. These large farms are typically owned by major pharmaceutical companies.

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We hope that increasing awareness of animal cruelty and wildlife conservation issues coupled with an end to bear bile farming in neighbouring countries will help push these countries towards eradicating the trade.

Bear bile farm. In China bear bile farming is legal and there is almost 100 large scale farms mass harvesting bears for their bile. The average lifespan of an Asiatic black bear on a bile farm is five years. These farms in theory were meant to reduce pressure on wild bears.

The bear species most commonly farmed for bile is the Asiatic black bear Ursus thibetanus although the sun bear Helarctos malayanus and the brown bear Ursus arctos are also used to collect bile. For years the brown bear lived at a bile farm in China. Like thousands of other bears she was packed into a tiny cage never seeing the sun or having room to run while an open wound on her side drained bile from her gallbladder for use in traditional Chinese medicine.

Today China the main consumer of bear bile keeps more than 10000 bears in farms a legal practice in the country. The quality of life and conditions on bile farms are so horrendous that the bears regularly suffer from a variety of physical and psychological ailments including hair loss malnutrition stunted growth blindness arthritis and severe muscle mass loss. Two bears have been rescued from an illegal bile farm in Vietnam where they have lived for an estimated 17 years in total darkness.

Today its estimated that more than 10000 bears are suffering on Chinese bear bile farms and a further 1000 in Vietnam. A worker prepares to drain the bile from a bear at a farm in China which has. The bear had just been saved by Animals Asia and brought to their rescue center in Tam Dao but the signs of her former trauma were plainly visible.

The largest holds over 2000 bears. Bile bears sometimes called battery bears are bears kept in captivity to harvest their bile a digestive fluid produced by the liver and stored in the gall bladder. Caesar the bear spent the first part of her life in hell.

Conservationists Matt Hunt and Giles Clark raised cute cub Mary the sun bear at home to save her from life of abuse either caged or on a bear bile farm. The extraction and trade of bear bile. The Asiatic bears -.

In 2006 Vietnam held an estimated 4000 bears in bile farms. In bear bile farming bile is painfully taken from Asiatic black bears and then sold to be used in black market medicines and tinctures FOUR PAWS reported. Tragically over 10000 bears remain in bile farms in countries in which Free the Bears does not operate.

A bear lays inside a cage at the bear farm of Guizhentang pharmaceutical company which makes bile tonics during a media tour in Huian county in. Henry confronts a bear bile farmer about the illegal practice of extracting bile from captive moon bears. Miracle had lived eight years in a bear bile farm where the animals are forced to live in small cages and undergo repeated invasive extractions.

In the 1990s bear farms mushroomed across Vietnam in response to the growing demand for bear bile. Vietnam banned bear bile extraction in 2005 but dozens of bear bile farms are still operating.

With The Right Help Bears Can Recover From The Torture Of Bile Farming