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	Bear - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Bears live in a variety of habitats from the tropics to the Arctic and from forests to snowfields.
		Although bears are often described as having evolved from a dog-like ancestor, their closest living relatives are the pinnipeds (walruses, seals, and sea lions).
		A bear also features prominently in the legend of Saint Romedius, who is also said to have tamed one of these animals and had the same bear carry him from his hermitage in the mountains to the city of Trento.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bear (1932 words)

	The Unbearable Trade in Bear Parts and Bile
		Bile is excreted by the liver and stored in the gallbladder, from which it is released into the stomach to help digest food.
		Bear bile is marketed as a treatment for a staggering array of human maladies, from cardiac illness to impotence to sore eyes.
		While 500 bears may represent a small percentage of the total number of bears on farms in China, the Moon Bear Rescue Center is a focal point for education and awareness on the issue, attracting a tremendous amount of local and international interest.
	www.hsus.org /ace/14513?pg=3 (1935 words)

	WWF \| Wildlife Trade \| FAQs \| Bear Trade
		Nevertheless, shrinking bear habitat and increased trade in bear parts has led scientists to conclude that a number of the world's bear species are in danger of extinction.
		Polar bears were once close to extinction after uncontrolled hunting of the animals for their thick fur; in the 1950s, polar bear numbers were as low as 5,000 wild individuals.
		All bears and their parts are regulated in international trade by their listing on Appendix I or II of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), a treaty that includes more than 160 signatory nations.
	www.worldwildlife.org /trade/faqs_bear.cfm (1357 words)

	Asiatic black bear - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Asiatic Black Bear is an omnivore which consumes a great variety of foods including fruit, berries, grasses, seeds, nuts, invertebrates, honey and meat (fish, birds, rodents and other small mammals as well as carcasses).
		The bears are also killed by farmers due to the threat they pose to livestock, and they are also unpopular for their habit of stripping valuable timber trees of bark.
		Since China outlawed the poaching of native bears in the 1980s, bear bile has been supplied to Chinese consumers by special farms, where the bears are kept constantly caged and restrained while catheters inserted in their gall bladders allow bile to drip into a container and be collected.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Asiatic_Black_Bear (688 words)

	The Bear Tradeâ”Questions and Answers
		Bear gallbladders and bile are used in traditional medicine to treat a variety of illnesses including fever, liver disease, convulsions, diabetes, and heart disease.
		A person who eats bear paws is believed to acquire the strength and vigor of a bear, and the consumption of bear flesh in believed to enhance one's virility.
		Today, there are an estimated 7,000 bears on China's farms and the use of bear bile is increasing, as are the number of bears on farms.
	www.hsus.org /ace/12527 (921 words)

	A Tap In The Gall (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Bears are kidnapped from the wild in the most brutal way to be kept in tiny, like coffin, cages for the rest of their short lives.
		Adult bears are dying slowly from bile extraction, whilst cubs too immature to produce adequate quantities of bile are slaughtered for their whole gall bladders and paws.
		Bear bile was obtained by killing wild bears and removing their gall bladders.
	free.hostdepartment.com /o/onlyonesolution/Print20.html (1078 words)

	BEAR League News: Freeing China's caged bile bears . . .
		Dozens of bears, kept alive only for their bile, were trapped in cages so small they couldn't move, their bellies spiked with crude, dirty, often- infected devices to allow the farmers to "milk" their bile twice a day and sell the fluid secreted by the liver as medicine.
		Bear bile has been used in Chinese medicine for centuries to treat a variety of ailments, from inflammation and heart disease to impotence, Parkinson's disease and liver ailments.
		Although rescued bears cannot be released to the wild, having long since lost their survival skills, they are freer at the sanctuary than they have been in years.
	www.savebears.org /bear_news/chinabilebears.htm (1189 words)

	Chinese Torture of Bears -- MUST BE STOPPED (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Many bears are wounded and scarred due to the friction caused by being kept in tiny metal cages which were just about big enough for them to fit into and where they are unable to stand straight.
		Cages are suspended above the ground, with bears having to suffer a constant stream of bile seeping from their stomachs, where an open wound allowed workers to insert a tube or piece of metal to "tap" the bile.
		Cages were suspended above the ground, with bears having to suffer a constant stream of bile seeping from their stomachs, where an open wound allowed workers to insert a tube or piece of metal to "tap" the bile, the report states.
	www.canadafirst.net /bears (1145 words)

	Milking the Bear Trade - National Wildlife Federation
		Bear entrees are increasingly popular in Asia's restaurants, and bear cubs continue to be kept as pets in the East.
		Unfortunately for bears, scientists in both the East and West have documented that an ingredient sometimes found in bear bile is effective in treating certain liver and gallbladder diseases in humans.
		The report she and her husband wrote on the trade in bears and bear parts, commissioned by the World Wildlife Fund, was published in late 1991.
	www.nwf.org /wildlife/grizzlybear/milkingbears.cfm (3111 words)

	Home Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Bear Rescue Incorporated - Friends of Animals Asia was formed in February 2001 in Perth, Western Australia by a small group of concerned individuals who had a vision to make a difference to the lives of Moon Bears mistreated, maimed, tortured and incarcerated for mankind's pleasure.
		Our particular area of concern is the bear bile farming industry in China and our major aim is to raise funds and public awareness with the end result being the abolishment of this abhorrent industry.
		Known as Moon Bears, because of the beautiful gold crescents on their chests, these bears are milked daily for their bile through a rusting metal catheter implanted deep into their gallbladders.
	www.bearrescue.org (321 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| Asia-Pacific \| New warning over China bear farms
		The trade in bile produced from bears - used in traditional Chinese medicines - is worth millions of dollars a year to the Asian nation, according to the World Society for the Protection of Animals (WSPA).
		The report accuses the farms of speeding the disappearance of Asiatic brown and fl bears and sun bears in the wild, as more are sought to replace those dying on farms.
		The substance is extracted from a bear's gall bladder in an excruciatingly painful process which involves slicing into the animal's flesh to "milk" bile from the gall bladder with a tube.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/asia-pacific/2366699.stm (480 words)

	Animal Planet :: Bile Bears Rescued
		An Asiatic fl bear in a cage at a bile farm in China.
		The action brought the number of former "bile bears" being cared for by the Foundation to 135, all of which currently live in one of two sanctuaries in China.
		For thousands of years bears were hunted for the bile in their gall bladders, but the practice was discontinued in the early 1980s because bear populations had been so dramatically reduced.
	animal.discovery.com /news/briefs/200212/bearrescue.html (296 words)

	Ursodiol
		Bile carries with it an assortment of the body’s toxins which are thus dumped safely into the gastrointestinal tract and ultimately eliminated in stool.
		The bile acids produced by dogs and cats are not as toxic as some of their human counterparts but, in the intestine, even the relatively benign dog and cat bile acids are modified by intestinal bacteria into toxic bile acids.
		Ursodeoxycholic acid is what is called a “choleretic” which means it improves the flow of bile through the tiny ducts into the gall bladder and improves the flow of bile from the gall bladder into the intestine.
	www.marvistavet.com /html/body_ursodiol.html (629 words)

	The Manila Times Internet Edition \| LIFE & TIMES > Saving the Moon Bears of China (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		To extract the bile from their bladder, dirty infected catheters are implanted on their abdomen, causing terrible pain and infections.
		The AAF said that bears are the only mammals to produce significant amounts of the bile acid (ursodeoxycholic acid) that has been used for Traditional Oriental Medicine for approximately 3,000 years.
		A hide in the woods is a refuge for bears of all ages.
	www.manilatimes.net /national/2003/may/10/life/20030510lif4.html (3450 words)

	Asia Times - Vietnam's elixir: Bear bile
		Bear bile is believed to cure fevers, liver ailments and muscle injuries, beliefs that have been around in Vietnam and other East Asian countries for thousands of years.
		Asiatic fl bears are listed in Vietnam's "Red Book" as an "endangered" species, and are already threatened with extinction in forests that have been dwindling because of illegal hunting.
		Thousands of bears have been captured from the wild and kept in cages in major cities of Vietnam, where their bile is extracted periodically and sold.
	www.atimes.com /atimes/Southeast_Asia/EH20Ae03.html (1014 words)

	Traditional Chinese Herbs: News: The Suffering of Bears Part II
		Knowing little about the practice, my first approach was to research the usage of bear bile in the Chinese pharmacopoeia, working with traditional medicine doctors, and discovering along the way that whilst bear bile held a 4000 year history of usage, it could easily and cheaply be replaced by herbs and synthetics.
		Although the practice was introduced to "save" bears in the wild, bear farming has created a host of new problems for wild bears as the stimulated demand sees them poached for their whole gall bladders by illegal hunters, and also often illegally trapped as new stock for the farms.
		In China, moon bears are confined for up to 22 years in cages the size of their own bodies and milked daily for their bile through rusting catheters implanted deep into their gall bladders.
	www.mayway.com /store/herbal_news_bears.jsp (1229 words)

	Satya Nov/Dec 04: Interview with Jill Robinson Part 1
		Bear bile is used in traditional Chinese medicine as a remedy for various ailments.
		In an effort to curb the illegal hunting of wild endangered Asiatic fl or Moon bears for their gallbladders, captive-bred bear farms were encouraged by the Chinese government in the early 1980s.
		These bears are obviously dying in huge numbers on the farms from peritonitis, septicemia, from massive infection that spreads across their bodies.
	www.satyamag.com /nov04/robinson1.html (1575 words)

	CNN.com - Sci-Tech - Chinese medicine proves deadly for Japanese bears - April 30, 2001
		Bear bile is used as traditional Chinese medicine for chronic stomach disease and gallstones
		Market demand is strong for bear gall bladders and medicines made from bear bile -- a substance a Tokyo pharmacist says can be an effective treatment for chronic stomach disease and related ailments.
		And those concerned about the bears say the importance of their cause is still unrecognized by government authorities and widely ignored by the Japanese public.
	archives.cnn.com /2001/TECH/science/04/30/japan.bears (451 words)

	[Bearfolks] Bile-farm news; hoax or not? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The 500 Asiatic fl bears are among an estimated 7000 captive bears held in China's 247 bear-bile farms, said Huang Jian Hua, of the China Wildlife Conservation Association.
		The bears are kept in tiny cages for their whole lives, where they have no room to turn round or over, and barely enough to raise their heads.
		Bear bile products were openly sold at Japanese bear parks but after WSPA's investigation a few years ago the trade has gone underground.
	www.bears.org /pipermail/bearfolks/2000-July/000383.html (1332 words)

	bear, bears, bear bile, bear farming \| Brenda Shoss
		He waits for nothing, the sum of his existence on a bear bile farm in China.
		The bear is one of 7,002 others warehoused on 247 farms, according to the last government tally in 1999.
		Latex catheter surgery, discarded in the mid-80s, gleaned bile from a rubber pipe affixed to the gallbladder.
	www.animalsvoice.com /PAGES/writes/editorial/features/farmed/shoss_moonbears.html (1066 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Bears on bile farms are kept in a horizontal position, in cages that are no bigger than the animal itself.
		Bear bile was traditionally used in China to treat liver and eye complaints, and relieve convulsions.
		WSPA's recent investigation highlighted the fact that bears are still being captured from the wild and bred in captivity to supply bear farms and that the authorities in China have every intention of expanding the trade in bear bile.
	www.bears.org /pipermail/bearfolks/2000-July.txt (5089 words)

	It's Still a Bear Market
		Wild bears, notably in Asia and North America, are slaughtered for their gallbladders and paws, the carcasses left behind since they are of no great value to the poachers who peddle these animal parts on the fl market.
		The trade in bear parts is a cruel commerce that is horrible for the individual animals and dangerous for the bear species targeted to supply this lucrative market.
		The JWCS team notes that bear bile as a medicine in Japan dates as far back as the Heian era at the end of the eighth century.
	www.awionline.org /pubs/Quarterly/fall02/bear.htm (611 words)

	General News - IIAS Newsletter Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		A particular bile acid found in bear bile (ursodeoxycholic acid, or UDCA) has been both synthesized and medically proven to be effective in treating numerous human illnesses, including gallstones (Mills and Servheen, 1991), hepatitis, and cirrhosis (Sano, 1995).
		In addition, farmed bear bile from China was openly for sale in Seoul.
		While the Korea's Management Authority has allowed the legal import of 66 kg of Appendix II bear gallbladders in 1996, Korean Customs officials confiscated 122 kg of what were claimed to be bear gallbladders, from the luggage of travellers entering the Korea in 1996.
	iias.leidenuniv.nl /iiasn/20/theme/20T7.html (1031 words)

	Asiaweek.com
		Ironically, China's Ministry of Forestry once praised bear farming as one of the country's conservation success stories -- because it met the demand for bile without hunting bears to extinction.
		It closed down some of the worst offenders, outlawed capturing wild bears and forced farmers to use half of their stock for breeding.
		Bear farming hasn't slowed the Asiatic fl bear's decline.
	www.asiaweek.com /asiaweek/97/1003/feat2.html (849 words)

	Urban Legend Zeitgeist: Bear Market
		Bear bile and gall bladder are used in traditional treatments for cancer, burns, asthma and pain.
		Tubes are surgically implanted in captive bears' gall bladders and the bile generated is harvested and sold.
		Bears are kept in small cages and in unsanitary conditions as the petition claims.
	tafkac.org /ulz/bear.html (451 words)

	Zookeeper poaches bear for bile : HindustanTimes.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		China has some 7,000 bear bile farms, many of which are illegal.
		Where bile is extracted from caged bears twice a day, practitioners of traditional medicine rely a lot on bile smuggled out of India’s Northeast.
		Bear paws, a delicacy in China and Southeast Asian countries as well as among some tribes in Arunachal Pradesh cost up to $250 each.
	www.hindustantimes.com /news/181_1579514,0035.htm (307 words)

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		Asiatic fl bears, commonly called “moon bears,” suffer terribly on Chinese “bear farms” where crude catheters are implanted in their stomachs to drain the bile from their gall bladders.
		This Asian moon bear was rescued by IFAW from an illegal bear bile farm in Beijing, China.
		Moon bears are housed in small cages with a catheter implanted into their bodies, often held into place by a metal girdle such as this bear is wearing, from which the bile is extracted.
	www.ifaw.org /ifaw/general/default.aspx?oid=9076 (178 words)

	The Connection.org : Moon Bears
		Animals Asia's photographs of the rescue of bears from bile harvesting farms, as well as images depicting the treatment of other animals in China.
		The Chinese value the Moon Bears for their bile, which has been used as medicine for thousands of years.
		Eleven years ago, she visited a bear farm in mainland China, and has been working to rescue the bears since.
	www.theconnection.org /shows/2004/12/20041222_b_main.asp (265 words)

	[No title]
		More than 10,000 moon bears were found cruelly incarcerated in cages that were so small they could barely move.
		IFAW rescued bears from these farms and provided intensive medical care to repair the damage done by the catheters as well as the wounds and deformities resulting from the cruel captivity.
		A rescued moon bear at the Pan Yu Bear Sanctuary.
	www.ifaw.org /ifaw/general/default.aspx?oid=76477 (122 words)

	Online Petition - Cruelty towards Bears
		Today in China 10,000 bears are kept prisoner for extracting bile from their gall bladders.
		The bile is used to produce shampoos aphrodisiacs and 'miraculous' remedies.
		During the extraction of the liquid, a tube is inserted in the gall bladder; one end of the tube stays outside the belly of the bear linked to a machine that extracts the bile.
	www.gopetition.com /info.php?petid=50 (388 words)

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