(VN) FW: Your letters can help Animals Asia rescue 79 moon bears in Vietnam!

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Thursday, September 10, 2009 6:32 PM

Your letters can help Animals Asia rescue 79 moon bears in Vietnam!

 

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Join our global letter-writing campaign to save more bears!

 

Two years ago, the Vietnamese Government promised to rescue and transfer

into our care 80 endangered moon bears being held illegally on farms in

northern Vietnam. So far, we've received only one. This is despite constant

appeals and lobbying to the authorities by Animals Asia and other

international and local NGOs.

 

These bears desperately need your help! Please join our global

letter-writing campaign to help us free the remaining 79!

 

We're planning to deliver all the letters we receive from around the world

to the Vietnamese Prime Minister at the end of October. The bigger the piles

of letters, the greater our hope of saving these poor bears from further

misery in the wretched bile industry.

 

Over the past 24 months, we've tried every legal means available to us, but

still the 79 bears remain in terrible conditions in small cages on farms in

Ha Long Bay, Quang Ninh Province, even though they are clearly being held

illegally under Vietnamese law. Because these bears are unmicrochipped, they

should have been confiscated and transferred to a rescue facility.

 

So please, go to our website now to download a sample letter, or write one

of your own - and please ask everyone you know to write as well, because

time is running out for these bears!

 

If you choose to write your own letter, please be polite and please be

quick! For maximum impact, and to show the Vietnamese government that people

all around the world want to see an end to bear farming, we need to collect

all the letters together as soon as possible, so we can get them off soon.

 

Although bile farming is illegal in Vietnam, the practice is still

widespread. The farmers drug the bears with ketamine, restrain them with

ropes, and repeatedly jab their abdomens with unsterile four-inch needles

until the gall bladder is found, then the bile is extracted through a

suction pump. The bears are regularly subjected to this agonising process

and remain trapped in small cages for years - the mental and physical

torture they endure is difficult to imagine.

 

See here for full details of our efforts to free these bears, and to

download a sample letter or points for writing your own. Please don't put

this off until tomorrow - these 79 bears have waited long enough.

 

Thank you for taking the time to help them.

 

Jill

 

Jill Robinson MBE

Founder and CEO

Animals Asia Foundation