| Journal Call no. | HC411.A76 |
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| Author | Connealy, Helen. |
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| Article Title | Bitter harvest : alternatives exist, but the milking of bears for their bile is hard to eradicate / Helen Connealy. |
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| Is Part Of | Asiaweek ; v.23, no.39, 3 Oct 1997, p.54-55, illus. |
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| Abstract | China's Ministry of Forestry praised bear farming as one of the country's conservation success stories - because it met the demand for bile without hunting bears to extinction. However, bear farming has not slowed the Asiatic black bear's decline. Poaching continues in China and elsewhere. Animal welfare groups and medical practitioners have joined forces to free these "farmed bears" by promoting herbal and synthetic alternatives to natural bear bile. |
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