Whoever said that one person can't make a difference?
[quote=http://www.nottinghampost.com/Notts-ani ... story.html]The tireless work of a Nottinghamshire-born animal rights campaigner has ensured a landmark agreement to end cruel bear bile-farming in Vietnam.
It is hoped that the horrific practice could be stamped out by 2020, thanks to the efforts of Dr Jill Robinson MBE.
Dr Robinson, who was born in Newark but moved to Hong Kong in 1985, is founder of the animal welfare charity Animals Asia.
The organisation has received an agreement from the Vietnamese Traditional Medicine Association to stop all use of bear bile, which has been used in Asian medicine, by 2020.
The historic agreement paves the way to end bear bile farming in Vietnam which, at one point, saw 4,300 bears in tiny cages facing regular bile extractions. Since 1999 when Animals Asia first started work in Vietnam that number has dropped to 1,245.[/quote]
P.S. Here's a video of a rescued baby bear taking his first steps: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ev6tMv1jKCI
Bear Bile Farming to be Eradicated in Vietnam by 2020
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Bear Bile Farming to be Eradicated in Vietnam by 2020
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Re: Bear Bile Farming to be Eradicated in Vietnam by 2020
I still think we should just out of principle and bomb the fuckheads.dualstow wrote: So we don't need to send drones?
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Re: Bear Bile Farming to be Eradicated in Vietnam by 2020
Ha! I was serious, but I only meant poacher-monitoring drones, like the ones you posted about for elephants. I donated to them, btw. Air Shepherd.MachineGhost wrote:I still think we should just out of principle and bomb the fuckheads.dualstow wrote: So we don't need to send drones?
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Re: Bear Bile Farming to be Eradicated in Vietnam by 2020
I was serious too about going all Rambo. I don't think the Air Shepherd approach will work since bear bile farming is a stationary, imprisonment activity. It's not an issue of finding moving targets. I haven't heard anything from Air Shepherd in a long while, have you?dualstow wrote: Ha! I was serious, but I only meant poacher-monitoring drones, like the ones you posted about for elephants. I donated to them, btw. Air Shepherd.
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Re: Bear Bile Farming to be Eradicated in Vietnam by 2020
No. Just that they were having trouble getting permission to put drones in the air, and that was a while ago.
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