Asiatic Black Bears (aka Himalayan, Moon Bear, Tibetan Black Bear)
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Scientific Classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Carnivora
Family: Ursidae
Genus: Ursus
Species: U. thibetanus
Binomial name
Ursus thibetanus
(G. Cuvier, 1823)
From Wikipedia
Facts About the Asiatic Black Bear
The Asiatic Black Bear is also known as the Tibetan black bear, the Himalayan black bear, or the moon bear.The Asiatic Black Bear is distributed all the way from the east to west of the Asian continent. They are found in high elevations as well as in lower lands. Areas with forests of hilly and mountainous areas in: East Asia and South Asia, including South Korea, North Korea, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Bangladesh northern India, Nepal, Sikkim (Indian state), Bhutan, Burma, southern Siberia in Russia, northeastern China, Taiwan and Japan.
They do share some areas with the brown bear, which is larger and stronger.
Features
They are black with a V-shaped white or cream colored marking on their chests.
Size
They are a medium-sized bear and are thought to be related to the American Black Bear. The males weigh between 240 to 480 pounds and the females between 110 to 275 pounds.
Diet
With its sharp-claws, the bear is able to climb trees to reach for fruit and nuts. In the habitat in China's Wolong Reserve, Asiatic Black Bears share habitat with Giant Pandas. Here, they feed occasionally on bamboo (the Panda's favorite food).
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Conservation Status
Chinese Harvesting Bile From These Bears!
By the early 1990s the number of captive bears hit 10,000 in 480 bear farms! Bear bile prices had rocketed but with the advent of synthetic bear bile and greater awareness of this barbaric and inhumane method of harvesting, the price has plunged.
AAF founder Jill Robinson visits China
In 1993 Jill Robinson visited China's Sichuan province and found bears incarcerated in tiny cages in bear bile farms. The bears had been there since they were cubs. Here's what she found:
1. Due to surgically implanted catheters, the bears were lying stomach down in cages -- barely high enough for them to raise their heads.
2. The bears spent their waking hours biting the iron grills or banging their heads against them.
3. Bile being extracted twice a day, 50 milliliters each time.
Jill told Reuters in an interview,
"It's a lifetime of confinement and pain, one had lived like that for 21 years."
Bear on farm caged for 20 years
Help Stop Bear Farming
There are Chinese "Bear Farms" where every day thousands of physically mutilated bears are milked for their bile. Bile is an ingredient used in traditional Chinese medicine.The World Society for the Protection of Animals (WSPA) states...
"There are now officially 247 bear farms across China, housing an estimated total of 7,002 bears".
"During bile milking; the bears show signs of severe distress. Moaning and banging of heads against the cage is common, while some bears were seen to chew their own paws".
"Between the ages of five and ten, bears may stop producing bile. They are then put in another cage, where they wait, either until death comes through sickness or starvation, or they are killed for their paws and gall bladders".
Please add your voice against this barbaric and inhuman act in support of a petition to end this horrendous practice. You can sign the petition at ...
Videos Of Bear Farming
Don't Turn A Blind Eye On This Barbaric Act
Oranizations Bent On Stopping Bear Farming
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AAF - China Bear Rescue
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5 Wildlife Species on the Brink of Extinction
5 Wildlife Species on the Brink of Extinction - Gr more...2 points
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Stop Bear Bile Farming and Bear Poaching
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Bear Farming: Born Free Foundation
Now Born Free is supporting their work to create a more...1 point
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Sirius Global Animal Organisation (Sirius GAO), campaigning to end ...
BEIJING--Some of the black bears at the Dianchuan more...1 point
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Saving Moon Bears from Lives of Torture -- China
IFAW is working to eliminate bear farming, provide more...1 point
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IAKA - International Aid for Korean Animals - News & Information
Though a vast majority of Koreans are opposed to b more...1 point
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MoonBears.org - A global coalition campaigning to save Korea's ...
China is currently monitoring bear farms in respon more...1 point
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Ursa Freedom Project
Global Action Network to dismantle the bear bile i more...1 point
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http://www.byronbear.com/home.php
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Informational Links About Bear Farming
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Bile bear - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A bile bear in Huizhou Farm, South China. This bea more...1 point
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The Unbearable Trade in Bear Parts and Bile | The Humane Society ...
Bear bile has been an ingredient in TCM for thousa more...1 point
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Bear Case Study
Legislation has now been enacted to protect the be more...1 point
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End Bear Farming
If you believe that bear farming is cruel and must more...1 point
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Image Gallery: Bear Bile Farming Pictures
Pictures of bears in cages undergoing the collecti more...1 point
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BBC News | ASIA-PACIFIC | 'Torture chamber' agony of China's bears
"The farming of bears for their bile should b more...1 point
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Freeing China's Caged Bile Bears
Apr 25, 2005 ... CHENGDU, CHINA -- Jill Robinson's more...1 point
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Asiatic Black Bear Informational links
- Free the Bears: Asiatic Black Bear
- The aim of Free the Bears fund is to protect, preserve and enrich the lives of bears throughout the world.
- Ursa Freedom Project - global action campaign to liberate 9,000 bears from bile farms
- The Ursa Freedom Project commits to liberate 9,000 bears from bile farms in China/Viet Nam and to end a practice that is commercially unnecessary.
Asiatic Black Bears In The News
- A baby bear rescued 38 days after the earthquake -- china.org.cn
- A baby bear rescued 38 days after the earthquakeAdjust font size: In Chengdu Zoo, a two-to-three-month-old baby bear is hanging on a 2-meter steel fence, miserable. Every...
- A complete mitochondrial genome sequence of Asian black bear Sichuan subspecies (Ursus thibetanus mupinensis)
- Mitochondria are vital subcellular organelles, responsible for the oxidizing reaction of the tricarboxylic acid cycle, the electron transfer and the energy metabolism in cells and have an independent genetic material called the mitochondria genome (mtDNA).
- 19 bears on the road to Animals Asia's Vietnam sanctuary
- I'm thrilled to be able to bring you the exciting news that yesterday morning we rescued 19 moon bears that have been held in appalling conditions on a farm in Binh D
Jill Robinson's Blog From Animals Asia (AAF)
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Tipi
May 14, 2011 @ 12:45 pm | delete
- They are such cute bears, I love that white spot on the chest.
Bear farming is a real bummer.
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imolaK
Mar 30, 2011 @ 12:34 am | delete
- I enjoyed reading your lens. I hope one day these bears won't be abused by humans. We must learn to live near these beautiful animals, and let them to live in their territories.Blessed!
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BadSoulPhotography
Feb 22, 2011 @ 7:49 pm | delete
- I enjoy bears and this lens
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BudgetHotelsinGangtok
Nov 2, 2010 @ 4:59 am | delete
- Bile milking? Shame! It must be stopped. They must find out alternative medicine.
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Frankster
Jan 10, 2011 @ 11:41 am | delete
- That's one of the things that makes bile farming so bad, there are many herbs, such as coptis or rhubarb, that can be used as alternatives for bear bile. There is just no reason for this abuse of bears!
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