Bear bile farm in Vietnam finally closed down, only one bear survived out of 27

Vietnam is known for its bear bile farms in which ‘moon bears’ are kept captive and crude catheters are jabbed into their abdomen to drain out fluid twice a day. This fluid, then, is used in Chinese medicine as aphrodisiac and hangover cure. The 'moon bears' are named after the yellow moon-shaped crescents on their chests.
The media had reported last November about the Cau Trang bile farm in Halong Bay, Vietnam where 27 of the endangered animals has been kept captive in cramped metal cages. It has finally been closed down and, only of the bears has been rescued alive. It was found in a half-starved condition and gasping for life on the floor of his tiny cage at the farm.
This has been reported in dailymail.co.uk dated 19 June 2015.

It is believed that the owner milked the bears for their valuable bile and sold them at huge profits to Asian tourists and must have either starved the bears to death or slaughtered them to sell off their paws and gall bladders.
Incidentally, the paws, meat and gall bladders of the ‘moon bears’ are sold for the equivalent of £625 a bear and usually smuggled to China for use in traditional medicine.
(Image courtesy wikimediacommons.org)

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