Bear Bile Farm
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. Bear Bile Farm Vietnam Animals Asia Green Queen 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