Animal welfare activists in Vietnam have rescued a female Asiatic black bear that was being kept in a small cage and had previously been abused for "painful" bile extraction. Global non-profit Four ...

Xuan and Mo have felt the sun again. On Tuesday, FOUR PAWS rescued the Asiatic black bears from some of the worst conditions the animal welfare organization has seen. According to a FOUR PAWS release ...

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 ...

Ursodeoxycholic acid, one of the main components in bear bile, has been medically proven to help dissolve gallstones and treat liver disease. But this component can be synthetically produced, without ...

Bear bile has been taken from wild bears in numerous Asian countries for use in traditional Chinese medicine for thousands of years, but it wasn’t until the 1970s that opportunistic individuals in ...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea said it will formally end its dwindling yet much-criticized bear bile farming industry this week, though about 200 bears are still kept in pens and raised for ...

Asiatic black bears Xuan and Mo spent years in the basement of a clothing shop with no access to sunshine or fresh air Xuan and Mo have felt the sun again. On Tuesday, FOUR PAWS rescued the Asiatic ...

(CNN) — When the call came in, the staff at Animals Asia jumped into action. A bear in Vietnam’s northeastern Haiphong region had been kept captive for years, her bile harvested in painful and ...