Why animals should not be in circuses - Animals Asia Foundation
Dec 10, 2022 · Why animals should not be in circuses. 10 December 2022. The truth about animals in circuses is that they are abused and endure lives of complete misery, while some are even poached from the wild, purely for entertainment. Circuses around the world continue to use animals in their shows and very few countries have banned the practice.
Overview - Animals Asia Foundation
Overview. In China and Vietnam, where we focus our work to end bear bile farming, over 12,000 bears – mainly moon bears but also others such as sun bears and brown bears – are held in captivity on farms and “milked” regularly for their bile, which is used in traditional medicine. Most farmed bears are kept in tiny cages.
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Oct 10, 2024 · Animals Asia’s Veterinary Welfare Training Program completes its inaugural National Pain Management Tour. Our Veterinary Welfare Training Program (VWTP) advocates for the incorporation of the best animal welfare practices in veterinary procedures, to ensure that our animal patients do not suffer unnecessarily throughout their treatment.
Hippos: Aggressive and deadly, but also vital to Africa’s ecosystems
Feb 15, 2019 · Hippos: Aggressive and deadly, but also vital to Africa’s ecosystems. The hippo is crucial to entire ecosystems and as populations dwindle, their loss will cause other species to die out too. The world’s most popular surprising fact about hippos is that they are the world’s deadliest land mammal, killing up to 500 humans a year.
Two beautiful bears move to Animals Asia’s Vietnam sanctuary
Jan 7, 2023 · It’s the first week of 2023, Animals Asia’s 25th Anniversary year, and our bear rescue team is already back in action, bringing two more bears home to our sanctuary in Vietnam. Since 2017, Animals Asia has been helping care for the two female moon bears, Molly and Jess, who have been living in a government-run wildlife centre at Pu Mat ...
Armstrong and Buzz are first bears to be rescued to our new …
Armstrong and Buzz are first bears to be rescued to our new sanctuary. 10 October 2023. On 2 October 2023, Animals Asia made “one giant leap for moonkind” by rescuing the first bears to our new sanctuary in Bach Ma, Vietnam. The new sanctuary signals the end of bear bile farming in Vietnam. It will be home to the last remaining few hundred ...
Kindness in Action: Animals Asia supporters made all these rescues ...
02 December 2021. What a phenomenal year it’s been! In less than 12 months, with the incredible help of our supporters, Animals Asia rescued 11 beautiful bears from the bear bile, wildlife trafficking and entertainment industries and elephants from a life of labour, and moved 101 ex-bile bears 750 miles across China to their forever home in ...
Animals Asia announces new Country Director to drive animal …
10 October 2024. MEDIA RELEASE. For Immediate Release. Animals Asia has announced that Heidi Quine has been appointed as their new Country Director for Vietnam, effective 1 October 2024. Heidi joined Animals Asia in 2011, first as a Bear Team Manager at the organisation’s Chengdu Bear Rescue Centre, China (CBRC), then as Senior Bear Team Manager.
Creating change for the animals of Asia - Animals Asia Foundation
Jul 3, 2023 · If you wish to donate, please do so in the following ways: ONLINE - Donate directly on this donation page Animals Asia | Make a donation today or go to animalsasia.org. PHONE - Call us on +1 415 523 3671. POST - For card or check donations, please print and send in one of our donation forms with your gift.
Massive expansion of China’s animal rescue capacity targeted as …
Jun 6, 2019 · The organisation's Dr Dog animal therapy programme has touched the lives of over 540,000 people, bringing comfort to the sick and elderly while also showing society the enormous potential of dogs as friends, rather than food.. Animals Asia has funded or mentored around 60% of all grass-roots animal welfare groups in China. Since 2004, 158 companion animal protection charities in 67 cities have ...