Tag: bear bile
Bears still suffer in Vietnam despite bear bile ban (INTERVIEW)
Asiatic black bears are still being used for bile extraction in Vietnam, despite the ban on sale and possession of bear bile.
Bear Amy happy but weak at new home, saved from notorious Phung Thuong village
To get the bile from a bear surgery has to be done to insert a tube in the galbladder. The bear can then be 'milked' for its bile. It leaves the bear scarred and in terrible pain. At these farms, bears stay in small steel cages where they can't sit up straight or turn around.