Over the past few months many UFP members have asked me about opportunities that exist for people who want to volunteer or work for Animals Asia Foundation. AAF currently has some job and volunteer opportunities available that you might want to check out. Click here to learn more about the following positions at AAF:
Finance Manager
Veterinary surgeon
Veterinary nurse/Technician
Coordinator for “Professor Paws” Programme
UK Director
Bear Manager
Vet team volunteers
Dog team volunteers

It does the heart good to flip through Animals Asia’s photo album to read the stories of bears that were rescued one year ago and to see how the bears have fared from rehabilitation by people dedicated to their care. The photos and stories uplift and inspire, and remind us of our purpose at Ursa Freedom Project -- to liberate bears from bile farms.

Thanks to UFP member Anna Becker, we now have Parts 6-11 of the high quality documentary Journey to Freedom. The documentary is a comprehensive look at bear rescue and rehabilitation performed by Animals Asia. You can view the video segments by clicking on them from the main page or by going to the video library, where the other segments also reside.

The use of animal parts in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) is decimating wild animal populations, including seven of the eight species of bears for bile products. There are over 50 herbal alternatives to bear bile for use in TCM.

Healing Without Harm
While the worldwide demand for traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) continues to grow, there is mounting concern regarding the negative impact that this increased popularity is having on the world’s animal species. Unless urgent reforms are introduced quickly, many species face an irreversible fate: extinction.

Animals used for TCM can only be protected from conservation and cruelty impacts once the demand for their body parts ends. The answer lies in promoting effective, abundant and non-endangered herbal and synthetic alternatives throughout the international traditional medicine community.

Animals Asia’s Healing Without Harm program can save millions of animals’ lives each year by helping to reduce a largely unregulated trade in wild, domestic and endangered species, while promoting cruelty-free herbal alternatives to consumers and practitioners of traditional medicine.

Please help Animals Asia get the word out about it’s Healing Without Harm program.Download the full report and pass it along to others.

Give a Gift
If you can only do a little, then please do a little. Doing something, however small it might seem, is better than doing nothing. Here's a guide to some giving options for Animals Asia's rescued bears.

US $5 Bears love honey, and it fortifies their bodies. Giving just $5 ensures a rescued bear a yummy pot of the healing nectar.

US $10 Medicated fruit shakes and fruit kabobs help strengthen bears when they come in from bile farms emaciated, undernourished, ill and diseased. You can help keep a rescued bear alive through a gift of fruit.

US $30 High-protein Mazuri pellets have been specially formulated for Animals Asia to remedy the damage to the bears’ health caused by the abuse on bile farms. .

US $40 Your gift of a strong metal-framed hanging basket gives a bear a safe, comfortable place to curl up and sleep while its body heals from the tortuous conditions experienced on bile farms. After the healing process, the basket also lets the bears curl up with buddies during hibernation season.

Animals Asia has rescued 26 bears from bile farms in Vietnam since opening its doors to the new Vietnam bear sanctuary in May.

UFP members can play a key role in helping to make sure Animals Asia can handle more rescued Ursa residents in Vietnam. Each tree for an enclosure, each climbing apparatus for a playground helps Animals Asia give rescued bears the freedom to BE for the first time in their lives since being poached from the wild for the bear bile trade.

After being rescued from a bile farm in Vietnam, sun bears David and Lamma ease into a life of freedom at AAF's new bear sanctuary in Tam Dao National Park. The sanctuary has two beautiful, semi-natural enclosures attached to the double bear house. One enclosure is for the two rescued sun bears, and the other for the moon bears. Sun bears and moon bears have very different temperaments and cannot be integrated. But that doesn't mean they can't get along as neighbors... well, maybe.

Visit AAF to read the funny tale about Lamma’s favorite pastime of harassing the moon bears through the den bars. UFP member Siew Te Wong is our resident sun bear expert and works with AAF on issues related to sun bears rescued from bile farms. Click here to learn more about sun bears from Wong.

UFP mascot Jasper and his buddy Beau are proof of the wondrous benefits of Animals Asia's enrichment program.

The Animals Asia website discusses general husbandry and management practices for rescued Asiatic Black Bears (Moon Bears), including the “Five Freedoms” of animal welfare that are used by governments and animal organizations worldwide as a basis for assessing captive animal welfare:
* Freedom from hunger and thirst
* Freedom from discomfort
* Freedom from pain, injury or disease
* Freedom to express normal behavior
* Freedom from fear or distress
Learn how you can help AAF's enrichment program

 

100% of money donated goes directly to Animals Asia Foundation. If you prefer to write a check rather than make an online donation, please click here for Animals Asia's mailing addresses. Your donations matter. Please give from the heart.

Thanks to our Ursa family members who are displaying the UFP badge or banner on their other sites. Members who display the UFP badge help increase awareness about bile farming and membership for UFP. Memberships increase our voice for the bears.

 

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Over the past few months many UFP members have asked me about opportunities that exist for people who want to volunteer or work for Animals Asia Foundation. AAF currently has some job and volunteer opportunities available that you might want to check out. Click here to learn more about the following positions at AAF:
Finance Manager
Veterinary surgeon
Veterinary nurse/Technician
Coordinator for “Professor Paws” Programme
UK Director
Bear Manager
Vet team volunteers
Dog team volunteers

It does the heart good to flip through Animals Asia’s photo album to read the stories of bears that were rescued one year ago and to see how the bears have fared from rehabilitation by people dedicated to their care. The photos and stories uplift and inspire, and remind us of our purpose at Ursa Freedom Project -- to liberate bears from bile farms.

Thanks to UFP member Anna Becker, we now have Parts 6-11 of the high quality documentary Journey to Freedom. The documentary is a comprehensive look at bear rescue and rehabilitation performed by Animals Asia. You can view the video segments by clicking on them from the main page or by going to the video library, where the other segments also reside.

The use of animal parts in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) is decimating wild animal populations, including seven of the eight species of bears for bile products. There are over 50 herbal alternatives to bear bile for use in TCM.

Healing Without Harm
While the worldwide demand for traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) continues to grow, there is mounting concern regarding the negative impact that this increased popularity is having on the world’s animal species. Unless urgent reforms are introduced quickly, many species face an irreversible fate: extinction.

Animals used for TCM can only be protected from conservation and cruelty impacts once the demand for their body parts ends. The answer lies in promoting effective, abundant and non-endangered herbal and synthetic alternatives throughout the international traditional medicine community.

Animals Asia’s Healing Without Harm program can save millions of animals’ lives each year by helping to reduce a largely unregulated trade in wild, domestic and endangered species, while promoting cruelty-free herbal alternatives to consumers and practitioners of traditional medicine.

Please help Animals Asia get the word out about it’s Healing Without Harm program.Download the full report and pass it along to others.

Give a Gift
If you can only do a little, then please do a little. Doing something, however small it might seem, is better than doing nothing. Here's a guide to some giving options for Animals Asia's rescued bears.

US $5 Bears love honey, and it fortifies their bodies. Giving just $5 ensures a rescued bear a yummy pot of the healing nectar.

US $10 Medicated fruit shakes and fruit kabobs help strengthen bears when they come in from bile farms emaciated, undernourished, ill and diseased. You can help keep a rescued bear alive through a gift of fruit.

US $30 High-protein Mazuri pellets have been specially formulated for Animals Asia to remedy the damage to the bears’ health caused by the abuse on bile farms. .

US $40 Your gift of a strong metal-framed hanging basket gives a bear a safe, comfortable place to curl up and sleep while its body heals from the tortuous conditions experienced on bile farms. After the healing process, the basket also lets the bears curl up with buddies during hibernation season.

Animals Asia has rescued 26 bears from bile farms in Vietnam since opening its doors to the new Vietnam bear sanctuary in May.

UFP members can play a key role in helping to make sure Animals Asia can handle more rescued Ursa residents in Vietnam. Each tree for an enclosure, each climbing apparatus for a playground helps Animals Asia give rescued bears the freedom to BE for the first time in their lives since being poached from the wild for the bear bile trade.

After being rescued from a bile farm in Vietnam, sun bears David and Lamma ease into a life of freedom at AAF's new bear sanctuary in Tam Dao National Park. The sanctuary has two beautiful, semi-natural enclosures attached to the double bear house. One enclosure is for the two rescued sun bears, and the other for the moon bears. Sun bears and moon bears have very different temperaments and cannot be integrated. But that doesn't mean they can't get along as neighbors... well, maybe.

Visit AAF to read the funny tale about Lamma’s favorite pastime of harassing the moon bears through the den bars. UFP member Siew Te Wong is our resident sun bear expert and works with AAF on issues related to sun bears rescued from bile farms. Click here to learn more about sun bears from Wong.

UFP mascot Jasper and his buddy Beau are proof of the wondrous benefits of Animals Asia's enrichment program.

The Animals Asia website discusses general husbandry and management practices for rescued Asiatic Black Bears (Moon Bears), including the “Five Freedoms” of animal welfare that are used by governments and animal organizations worldwide as a basis for assessing captive animal welfare:
* Freedom from hunger and thirst
* Freedom from discomfort
* Freedom from pain, injury or disease
* Freedom to express normal behavior
* Freedom from fear or distress
Learn how you can help AAF's enrichment program

 

100% of money donated goes directly to Animals Asia Foundation. If you prefer to write a check rather than make an online donation, please click here for Animals Asia's mailing addresses. Your donations matter. Please give from the heart.

Thanks to our Ursa family members who are displaying the UFP badge or banner on their other sites. Members who display the UFP badge help increase awareness about bile farming and membership for UFP. Memberships increase our voice for the bears.

 

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