Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)

There is a lot to see from Animals Asia as they (today – 5/5/15) undertake the first sea rescue of 2 ex bile farm bears.  Please click on the links below to get a livetime update of the days happenings as they happen.. At the moment the bears have now made their boat journey and have arrived on the mainland. 

They will journey through the afternoon; stop overnight and then arrive at a new life at the sanctuary tomorrow – 6^th May.

As always, a superbly professional series of updates from AA; keeping all their global friends and supporters updated all the time with what is happening.  Check it all out !

Join our Vietnam team on first sea rescue

BearSeaRescue Timeline – https://www.animalsasia.org/intl/media/news/news-archive/bear-sea-rescue-timeline.html

Two moon bears to be rescued from Vietnamese island – https://www.animalsasia.org/intl/media/news/news-archive/two-moon-bears-to-be-rescued-from-vietnamese-island.html

LIVE: The team have made it back to dry land with their precious moon bear cargo. So many stories today. Our most incredible rescue yet of Sam and Simon – on our founder Jill Robinson’s birthday. The last rescue for vet nurse Julie. The first for Toan – joining as part of the hort team.

For the tens of thousands of you who signed the petition to free the Halong Bay Bears. You did this. And this is just the start. There are 36 more bears coming.

• bears loaded up and headed for Halong City where they’ll stop the night.

• Sanctuary tomorrow.

12:31 PM – 5 May 2015

– bears won’t arrive in sanctuary till tomorrow but vet Joost looking happy:

12:22 PM – 5 May 2015

Dear Mark,

Please follow us as we embark on the rescue of two bears

– a male and female – from a remote island just north of Halong Bay, Vietnam on Tuesday, May 5.

The rescue from Ba Mun Island will be the first time our team has performed a rescue at sea, and without a doubt it will be our most challenging yet.

We’ve rescued over 120 bears in Vietnam, but have never faced a challenge like this one. The remote location, the potential dangers of travelling at sea, a lack of developed facilities and the potential poor health of the bears will make this a huge challenge.

The male bear is reported to be weak, with restricted movement, and clear scarring and an open wound on his back.

This rescue will be the first of many after the Quang Ninh authorities’ recent decision to transfer all 38 captive moon bears in the province to our rescue centre – making the province bear bile farm free. These bears include the last of the bears still trapped on bile farms at Halong Bay.

We can’t wait to get these two bears home to the care they so urgently need.

Join them on their journey to freedom on our website, Facebook or Twitter. And as you follow these lucky bears home, please consider giving a little to their rescue and recovery.

We hope to be back at our Tam Dao sanctuary by Wednesday afternoon.

We’d love you to come along on our journey.

Dr Tuan Bendixsen
Vietnam Director

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