Whereas bear bile products in Vietnam are illegally distributed underground and could be fake or tainted, Chinese products come with “a stamp to tell you it’s legitimate,” Garshelis said.

Animals Asia rescued Buzz the bear from a bear bile farm in Vietnam and moved the animal to a sanctuary, where the bear now has access to the outdoors for the first time in 20 years ...

Bear bile farming is extremely cruel and bears rescued from these farms are often psychologically scarred," she said. "But this is one more bear that can live out the rest of his life in peace, ...

“When I first took bear bile, it wasn’t from a farm,” said 48-year-old Hoang Thi Nga, seeking herbal medicine for her bad back at a mobile clinic run by Animals Asia in Phung Thuong.

Bear bile harvesting remains legal in China, where the government says 7,000 bears are milked on about 250 farms, though animal welfare groups say the real number could be double that.

For the first time in 20 years, Na the bear has choices. Until October 17, the Asiatic black bear lived in a tiny cage at a bear bile farm in Vietnam bear Ho Chi Minh City, the same place she had ...

H O N G   K O N G, July 24 -- China pledged today torescue 500 bears held in cages for their bile as a first step inwiping out the age-old practice, Chinese researchers and Westernactivists said.

A bile bear found rocking back and forth on a farm in Vietnam has been rescued after 17 years of abuse.. Rescuers from Animals Asia were first alerted about the animal by the Forest Protection ...

Animal welfare foundation Animals Asia has just rescued 14 moon bears, which had been farmed and abused for a substance produced in their gall bladders. Gah. People are willing to perpetrate some ...

The first reference to bear bile used in this context appeared in a Tang Dynasty medical text in 659 A.D., since when use of the ingredient has spread across Asia.