Animals Asia

Animals Asia Foundation is committed to ending bear bile farming and improving animal welfare in Asia. We promote compassion and respect for all animals in an effort to bring about long-term change.
Animal Asia was founded in 1998 and has been rescuing bears since 1994. It operates award-winning bear rescue sanctuaries in China and Vietnam, and is the only organization in China with bear sanctuaries. Founder and CEO, Jill Robinson MBE, MD. HonLLD is widely regarded as the world’s leading authority on the brutal bear bile industry and has been campaigning against it since 1993.

Work has focused on three main programmes:

End bear bile farming
The Animals Asia Foundation is working to end the bear bile trade, and more than 10,000 bears — mainly moon bears, but also sun bears and brown bears — are now kept in bile farms across Asia. Since its inception, more than 600 bears have been rescued.
After years of cooperation, Animals Asia has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Vietnamese government to completely end bear bile farming in Vietnam by 2022. This includes the rescue and relocation of some 600 bears from farms in Vietnam, where bile farming is illegal.
In China, too, authorities have agreed to try to end the trade, allowing two bear rescue facilities to operate in Chengdu and Nanning. They continue to work with farmers, governments, traditional medical associations and communities to build trust and awareness around trade-related animal welfare issues, highlight the dangers to humans of consuming wildlife products such as bear bile, and promote the use of synthetic and plant alternatives as more humane alternatives.
 

The cat and dog welfare
Animal Asia is committed to ending the cat and dog trade in Asia, working with governments and ngos to improve the welfare of companion animals and promote humane population management.
 

Animal welfare in captivity
Animals Asia is campaigning to end animal abuse in zoos and wildlife parks in Southeast Asia and to work closely with management authorities and facilities to improve animal management and raise awareness of the welfare needs of captive wildlife.