Elsewhere bears are enslaved for their bile.In Vietnam (where bear farming is illegal) and China (where it is not), sun and moon bears are kept in cages.

Sun and moon bears are some of the world's rarest, and with their numbers declining, ... Moon bear Chhaiya lost one of her paws when she was captured in a trap.(ABC) The root of the issue.

Mary’s rescue was particularly special as since 2003 we’d only rescued one sun bear in Laos (the majority of 80+ rescues in this country have been moon bears captured as cubs and kept as ...

In short: 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.

Giles’s first rescue was the five-month-old sun bear Mary, who was fed on milk with seven times more fat than normal. Rescued sun bears and moon bears have been living at Matt’s Laotian home, wreaking ...

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 ...

A video of moon bears happily relaxing at a zoo while one raises its paw in an apparent greeting to visitors has resurfaced, sparking theories that they are also humans in costumes.

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. In ...

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 ...