World Animal Protection rescued the Asiatic black bear from an illegal bile farm in Vietnam, where he was found "in a narrow, steel cage," which made it hard for him to move around freely Nicholas ...

An study led by the Australian animal welfare group Free The Bears found that bear bile farms across Vietnam are starving and killing their bears because keeping them alive has become too costly.

According to Animals Asia, the organization rescued the bear from a bear bile farm in October after receiving a call from the Vietnamese authorities about a bear bile farmer looking to surrender ...

In the 1990s, bear farms mushroomed across Vietnam in response to the growing demand for bear bile. These farms in theory were meant to reduce pressure on wild bears. In 2005, bile extraction was ...

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 been for the past 20 years. Rescuers from World Animal ...

Kim KwangSoo, the owner of this farm in Dangjin, about 120 kilometers (about 75 miles) south of Seoul, said he hasn’t had a bear bile customer in five years. That, however, doesn’t ensure the ...

Heartbreaking pictures show a caged bear who was rescued from a farm where she is feared to have been exploited for her bile. The 20-year-old animal, named Tu Do, suffers from liver disease and ...

In this photo taken on Jan. 24, 2014, a bear looks out from a cage at a bear farm in Dangjin ... to be killed for their bile. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man) ...