Rescuers moved Na the Asiatic black bear from her cage at a bear bile farm in Vietnam to a large, open habitat at a sanctuary Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE ...

Bear bile farming will soon be banned in South Korea after roughly 40 years, the Ministry of Climate, Energy and Environment announced Tuesday, Dec. 30. The change is set to begin on Thursday, Jan. 1, ...

Thankfully, Animals Asia was able to intervene. In the first clip of the video, we get to experience one of the first times ...

A bear who was rescued from a bile farm was caught on camera jumping for joy while taking a dip in a pool in Vietnam for the first time. Tuffy was freed from captivity after spending many years in a ...

DANGJIN, South Korea (AP) — Several bears lie on top of each other, as still as teddy bears, as they gaze out past rusty iron bars. Others pace restlessly. The ground below their metal cages is ...

Veterinarians have performed health checks like this on Su Su every two years since she was rescued from bear bile farming in 2016. Organ damage is among the many telltale injuries of life on a bile ...

2006-02-16 04:00:00 PDT Chengdu, China-- Andrew's caretakers knew for some weeks their gentle giant wasn't well. They clung to the hope it wasn't a fatal liver tumor like those that have already ...

Last July I joined a group of friends for a private tour of northeast China. One day our guide asked whether we'd like to visit a bear farm, where bile, used for medicinal purposes, is extracted from ...

Though the bile is used in medicinal treatment for conditions like epilepsy and liver disease, criticism of the method has risen in recent years Starting on Jan. 1, bear bile farming will be banned in ...

Several bears lie on top of each other, as still as teddy bears, as they gaze out past rusty iron bars. Others pace restlessly. The ground below their metal cages is littered with feces, Krispy Kreme ...