Animals Asia Needs YOUR Help to Save Moon Bears in Vietnam

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 [...]

To Make You Smile: Bears, Gorillas, and Cows

If you read my blog from time to time, then you know I’m a volunteer at Poplar Spring Animal Sanctuary. One of my volunteer colleagues, Deb, posted this video of the farm, narrated by a 5-year-old boy and filmed about two years ago. Enjoy. Moon bears, or Asiatic black bears, are also dear to my [...]

Moon Bears Named to Asia’s Big 5 Species List

A while back I wrote about a contest sponsored by Asian Geographic to choose Asia’s “Big 5″ species. I was digging around the innernets to find out if the results were announced, even sent a note to AAF to find out if they knew, when I clicked on their home page and … THE BEARS [...]

Vote Now to Make Moon Bears One of Asia’s Big 5!

Oh, I loves my moon bears. I’m a monthly supporter of Animals Asia Foundation and their work rescuing moon bears from bile farms. Now, they need our help to make moon bears (Asiatic black bears) one of Asia’s Big 5 species. Here’s the scoop (note: the contest Web site isn’t working so please send votes [...]

Good News About Bears from Animals Asia

Jill Robinson writes in her blog about the rescue of three young moon bears in Vietnam. This is Amigo. Isn’t he sweet? The young bears were rescued by Vietnamese authorities who caught a Chinese man attempting to leave the country with them. He had no official papers of any kind and the Vietnamese authorities don’t [...]

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