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China Bear Rescue 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002 | 2001 | 2000 | Overview -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- March 2008 Follow the spring moon bear rescue in ChengDu March 2008 One emaciated bear brought to the AAFs rescue centre in Chengdu was dead on arrival, his body still warm. One died of prior injuries and nine more have been euthanised. Each was riddled with chronic, liver cancer, as well as a litany of other agonising ailments. All were in impossibly small cages, all skeletal, wounded in various ways, and terrified of what would happen in this next stage of their lives. Some are blind, some have shattered teeth and grotesquely ulcerated gums, some have shocking necrotic wounds their flesh literally rotting down to the bone. Most arrived with open wounds in their abdomens from the free-drip method of bile extraction, with some leaking bile, blood and pus. The number of bears in such an atrocious condition was unprecedented. This latest rescue brings to 247 the total number of bears Animals Asia has saved from lives of torture on bile farms in China. In July 2000, AAF signed a landmark agreement with the Chinese authorities to rescue 500 bears in Sichuan province, to work towards the elimination of bear farming in China and to promote the herbal alternatives to bear bile. The farmers are compensated financially so they can either retire or set up in another business. Their licences are taken away permanently. But many farmers claim that a new catheter-free, free-drip method of bile extraction involving the creation of a permanent hole in the abdomen is painless for the bears and that the industry, therefore, is now “humane”. The latest batch of tormented, disfigured bears provides further proof that the trade is as brutal as ever. Consumers in China, Japan and Korea have the highest demand for bear bile. Bear parts, bile powder and bile products are also found in Australia, Taiwan, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, the US and Canada. It is illegal for bear products to be exported from China, but the black market trade is thriving. The bile is used in traditional medicine for a range of complaints including fever, liver disease and sore eyes. Synthetic and herbal alternatives are readily available. Two years ago, the European Parliament in Brussels launched a campaign to urge the Chinese government to end bear farming by 2008. More than 7,000 bears are still trapped in farms throughout China. Some have been incarcerated for more than 20 years.
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