In Vietnam (where bear farming is illegal) and China (where it is not), sun and moon bears are kept in cages. Bile is extracted from their gall bladders in a process akin to torture. The resulting ...

Sun and moon bears are some of the world's rarest, and with their numbers declining, Cambodian conservationists are working hard to find solutions. Bears are taken from the wild to be sold as pets ...

We went from 22 sun and moon bears at our Cambodian sanctuary in 2001 to more than 230 bears across three countries (Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam) today. In our Cambodian sanctuary the bears are ...

Australian zookeepers are travelling to South-East Asia to assist with rescued sun and moon bears. More than 30 bears have been rescued in 2024 so far. Tamara Gillies remembers the first rescued ...

In response to the newly surfaced video of the moon bears, which are also native to Asia but are bigger than sun bears, social media users speculated that they were in fact 'two humans in bear ...

Recounting her travels in search of spectacled bears in Ecuador and Peru, sloth bears in rural India, pandas in China, sun and moon bears in South Vietnam, black and grizzly bears in the western U ...

Moon, a sun bear who spent the final five years of her life entertaining children from her home at Reid Park Zoo in Tucson, died after a courageous battle against liver cancer. She was 18.

She meets with key figures on the frontlines of modern conservation efforts—the head of a rescue center for sun and moon bears freed from bile farms, a biologist known as Papa Panda, who has led China ...