also known as a moon bear, spent over two decades at a bear bile farm in Vietnam, where he lived in a small indoor cage. At bile farms, captive bears endure painful bile extractions so the ...

Freedom Moon is a beautiful documentation of the bears who were rescued following agreements with Chinese and Vietnamese farmers to retire the cruel practice and relinquish their licenses. Pre-rescue ...

Bile farms, found across Southeast Asia, usually hold Asian black and sun bears (Helarctos malayanus) in cages. Bile is extracted from their gall bladders using a syringe, for use in Asian ...

Matt has worked with bears for over 20 years. many of the moon bears we rescue have spent decades trapped in tiny metal cages A large proportion of new rescues are cubs requiring hand-rearing ...

The team is called out on a 10-hour journey to rescue two three-year-old moon bears that have been kept as trophy pets in a cage their entire lives. Tong and Nunge are taken to the Free the Bears ...

and moon bears, are snatched from their mothers and caged in squalid cages by bile farming operators to extract their bile used in the production of traditional medicine, say wildlife experts.