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The Fight to Stop Illegal Bear Trafficking in Southeast Asia | National Geographic


but what I’ve seen in now is their cages
no bigger than two meters by 2 meters by
2 meters these animals would likely be
placed in those cages as cubs and spend
the duration of their lives their lives
in a worrying trend with the increasing
captive population of wild bears in bear
farms annually we’ve seen an increase of
21% and with pressure put on surrounding
countries to phase out their industries
our concern is that there is the
potential for the industry to explode in
well the situation for our the the laws
are quite weak with regard to protecting
the particular species that we work with
the Asiatic black bear in the Sunday I
don’t just tend to be caught in snares
in the wild mum would likely be caught
in us there the poacher would likely
kill the mother the mother would then
become parts gallbladders paws first
teeth claws then they cub would be taken
from the mother and then the cub would
be traded
likely to a middleman these bears are
primarily being moved towards China and
Vietnam the cub could end up in the bear
bile industry call the cab court
unfortunately become parts to serve the
traditional Asian medicine trade
they are very intelligent very very
beautiful animals and unfortunately
they’re going the way of the tiger well
in the past 12 months with had a record
number of bears rescued here in Laos six
cubs two adults our friends in central
Lao had one of my friends Foundation
have also had a record number of there’s
some of these bears are being kept as
pets some of these bears we understand
were to be traded into the bear bile
industry or bear farms younger animal
would be more likely to produce
higher-quality bile and other bears were
likely to be traded live to become parts
for the traditional Asian medicine trade
now it’s getting popular in China to
extract the bite from the bear to
produce medicine like a local medicine
with mixing the bear bath the local
people some some of the areas they still
don’t understand the real role that
there is to protect animals
here we got two large vehicles it’s hard
to tell whether they or portal coin
pools it’s a very worrying trend what
we’re seeing in markets an open public
arena where wildlife products have been
up in the trailers man that’s a big law
limiting factors in the protection of
bears here basically down to capacity of
government partners to enforce their
awards and also the limiting laws
themselves problem McCallum son but
Lobby Aparna can come concert panel at
an in the harmonica Jota sang on Cornyn
– banner – soy 1000 happening on okay
mr. blonde I said I’m Hannah but only
eating’s I could new Barnum info on
Carbonaro
this is a reliable visual not specific
to Lao but now being volatile hotspot is
now being targeted by the drivers of the
illegal water lock train
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