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ACTION ALERT: Stop the Trade in Bear Parts !!!!!
Animals  (tags: chinese medicine trade, bears, butchered, slaughtered, bear parts, cruelty, protection, laws, legalisation )

Simone
- 76 days ago - secure3.convio.net
Across North America, black bears have been found with gallbladders removed, paws chopped off, and bodies left to rot, all to satisfy a demand in Asian communities both here and abroad. A gallbladder might fetch thousands of dollars on the black market,
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Proposed Bill Hopes to Protect North American Black Bears From Poaching for Asian Markets - Before It's Too Late
Animals  (tags: bear galls, bear parts, bears, slaughtered, wildlife, trade, protection, laws, legalisation, bear protection act )

Simone
- 120 days ago - all-creatures.org
With commercial trade prohibited for Asian bears, poachers are now turning to the North American black bear for the harvesting of their gallbladders. Commercialization of wildlife has been a contributing factor in the reduction and loss of many
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ACTION ALERT: Bear Protection Act- Stop the Trade in Bear Parts!!!
Animals  (tags: bear protection act, bear trade, bear parts )

Simone
- 130 days ago - secure3.convio.net
Please contact your United States Representative and ask her or him to co-sponsor the Bear Protection Act. IMPORTANT NOTE: Congress is now out of action until after Labor Day for its annual August recess. This makes it the perfect time to meet your
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Jackie Chan Kicks Up Awareness of Animal Suffering - World Society for the Protection of Animals
Animals  (tags: bears, Bear bile, bears, bear, bear cubs, bear farms, bears tortured, bear parts, Bear Bile Farming, abuse, abused, AnimalCruelty, AnimalWelfare, animalcruelty, animals, animalwelfare, animalrights, cruelty, death, endangered, environment, extinction )

Lorie
- 612 days ago - wspa-usa.org
Bears are raised in captivity and forced to suffer painful procedures to extract their bile. The conditions the bears live in are dire - most live in cages about the size of a telephone booth turned on its side, where they cannot stand or easily turn aro
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Help End A Bear Poaching Plague. PETITION. Please Help & Sign.
Animals  (tags: animals, cruelty, killing, suffering, wildlife, extinction, Bear parts, black market animal trade )

Jocelyn
- 616 days ago - secure.defenders.org
America's bears are facing a poaching plague. Increasing demand for traditional medicines using bear parts like gallbladders is fueling a lucrative black market -- and poachers are targeting bears in the U.S.
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Take Action: Help Pass the Bear Protection Act
Animals  (tags: bear protection act, bears, hunted, killed, vanishing, black market trade, poachers, bear parts, bear bile )

Simone
- 630 days ago - community.hsus.org
Wild bear populations are under attack by poachers feeding the international black market trade in bear parts. But Congress can help. H.R. 5534, the Bear Protection Act, would prohibit the import, export, and interstate commerce of bear viscera such as
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Take Action: Help Pass the Bear Protection Act
Animals  (tags: illegal bear bile trade, bear parts, bears tortured, cruelty, bear protection act, bear welfre, laws )

Simone
- 658 days ago - community.hsus.org
Wild bear populations are under attack by poachers feeding the international black market trade in bear parts. But Congress can help. H.R. 5534, the Bear Protection Act, would prohibit the import, export, and interstate commerce of bear viscera such as
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