Yesterday, I got this action alert from Animals Asia. Please send a letter to help save those 79 moon bears.
Two years ago, the Vietnamese Government promised to rescue and transfer into our care 80 endangered moon bears being held illegally on farms in northern Vietnam. So far, we’ve received only one. This is despite constant appeals and lobbying to the authorities by Animals Asia and other international and local NGOs.
Moon bear in Vietnam trapped in a crush cage
These bears desperately need your help! Please join our global letter-writing campaign to help us free the remaining 79!
We’re planning to deliver all the letters we receive from around the world to the Vietnamese Prime Minister at the end of October. The bigger the piles of letters, the greater our hope of saving these poor bears from further misery in the wretched bile industry.
Over the past 24 months, we’ve tried every legal means available to us, but still the 79 bears remain in terrible conditions in small cages on farms in Ha Long Bay, Quang Ninh Province, even though they are clearly being held illegally under Vietnamese law. Because these bears are unmicrochipped, they should have been confiscated and transferred to a rescue facility.
So please, go to our Web site now to download a sample letter, or write one of your own – and please ask everyone you know to write as well, because time is running out for these bears!
If you choose to write your own letter, please be polite and please be quick! For maximum impact, and to show the Vietnamese government that people all around the world want to see an end to bear farming, we need to collect all the letters together as soon as possible, so we can get them off soon.
Although bile farming is illegal in Vietnam, the practice is still widespread. The farmers drug the bears with ketamine, restrain them with ropes, and repeatedly jab their abdomens with unsterile four-inch needles until the gall bladder is found, then the bile is extracted through a suction pump. The bears are regularly subjected to this agonising process and remain trapped in small cages for years – the mental and physical torture they endure is difficult to imagine.
See here for full details of our efforts to free these bears, and to download a sample letter or points for writing your own. Please don’t put this off until tomorrow – these 79 bears have waited long enough.
Thank you for taking the time to help them.
Jill
Jill Robinson MBE
Founder and CEO
Animals Asia Foundation
Filed under: animal rights, bears, wildlife conservation | Tagged: animals asia foundation, moon bears, vietnam moon bear rescue
Dear Jill,
I wondered if Animals Asia took on any volunteers to help with the organisations very worthy efforts in Vietnam?
My partner and I like to get involved every year in volunteering – last year we worked on a turtle conservation project. We only have a week or two free to do this type of activity due to work committments in Scotland but was intereested to hear if you had any volunteering opportunities?
I look forward to hearing from you.
Kind regards
Claire
Hi there,
This isn’t the Animals Asia Foundation Web site. This is my personal blog.