Category: conservation, education | Date: Mar 27 2009 | By: Siew Te Wong

“1.1.2009

Sepilok, Sabah

Malaysia

Dear Human,

We, sun bear, would like to say thank you very much to Sekolah kabangsaan Bukit Damansara for organizing campaigns to save endangered animals like us, since 1999. Special thanks to all student artists, teachers, parents abd our main sponsor, Vads Bhd, who contributed towards the making of this calendar. We are truly delighted and hopeful for our future.

Love, barks and BIG BEAR HUGS!!!

From us,

Sun Bears”

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 Around 100 children participated the art completion of “Save our sun bears” at Bukit Damansara Primary school last year. 19 pieces of art were selected to grace a 2009 desk-top calendar on sun bears produced by the Parent Teacher Association of the school. These calendars were sold in December 2008 and January 2009 to raise funds for BSBCC to help the caged bears. Here are some of the art works by these younger generation who hold the future of our wildlife. I would like to thank Bukit Damansara School and the PTA for their kind support and hard work to make all of these work possible.

Thank you all!

For more information about the ”Save our sun bear” campaign, please read:  http://sunbears.wildlifedirect.org/2009/02/16/thank-you-bukit-damansara-school-i-see-hope/

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Category: BSBCC, captivity, sanctuary | Date: Mar 24 2009 | By: Siew Te Wong

By Ng Wai Pak

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Category: BSBC UK, Fund raising | Date: Mar 24 2009 | By: Siew Te Wong

March 14, 2009 marked history for sun bear conservation in UK. The first meeting of Bornean Sun Bear Conservation UK, a newly established charity group that helps BSBCC and sun bear conservation, meet up in London for the first time to discuss the formation, operation, and direction of the organization. During the meeting, it was agreed that the name of BSBC UK to be change to Sun Bear Conservation Trust, as the mission of saving and helping sun bear and the operation of the activities will not limit to Borneo and UK respectively.

Like most of the successful conservation projects working on saving endangered species in developing countries, the involvement and supports of all levels- from local, national, and all the way to international   communities, governments, and NGOs are crucial keys to success. The formation of Sun Bear Conservation Trust, or SBCT, is motivated by several former-volunteers at Sepilok Orangutan Rehabilitation Centre and BSBCC, including the Chairwomen Julie Trump who have helped and have up-close-and personal experiences with the sun bears at BSBCC. All of them were inspired by the facts that these bears are truly amazing animals but unfortunately being forgotten by conservation communities and general public. Sun Bear Conservation Trust therefore has a mission to save and help this forgotten bear species.

SBCT is now recruiting members in UK and welcome comment and ideals to make it grow stronger. Please feel free to contact Julie at julie.trump@btinternet.com  if you would like to be a member, interested in having copy of minutes of meeting or have any question.

The first meeting of Bornean Sun Bear Conservation UK (now Sun Bear Conservation Trust ) meeting at Le Pain Quotidien, London – Saturday 14^th March 2009.

From left to right:  Anna Cocker, Fiona McInally, Julie Trump (Chair), Todd Dalton, Wai-Ming Wong, Lindsey Hahn.

 Julie is working hard to raise money and awareness by having a boot sale last month.

See also: http://sunbears.wildlifedirect.org/category/bsbc-uk/

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Category: captivity | Date: Mar 19 2009 | By: Siew Te Wong

In this Monday, March 16 picture Pagi, right, a female Bornean sun bear cub whose name means “morning” in a Malayan dialect, licks her brother, Palu, who is named after a valley in Borneo, as they made their public debut at the San Diego Zoo. (AP/ San Diego Zoo)

Endangered Bornean sun bear cubs make public debut at San Diego Zoo

Associated Press Last update: March 16, 2009 - 8:38 PM

Last update: March 16, 2009 - 8:38 PM

SAN DIEGO - Two endangered Bornean sun bear cubs have been introduced at the San Diego Zoo.

The twin cubs were born at the zoo on Oct. 25 and made their public debut on Monday.

The zoo’s lead keeper Lisa Bryant says the cubs spent the day exploring their habitat, including scaling the exhibit’s climbing structures.

Bryant says Bornean sun bears are affectionately called “monkey bears” because they are the most arboreal bear species.

Bryant says the male is more reserved and his sister is more outgoing and curious.

The sun bear is the smallest of the world’s eight bear species, about half the size of the American black bear, according to the zoo’s Web site.

Tags: sun bear

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Category: poaching | Date: Mar 19 2009 | By: Siew Te Wong

Tell us about your organisation.
Traffic was set up in the 1970s, after the signing of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES). It is an international convention of which Malaysia is one of its members. This convention enables countries to cooperate in the monitoring of the international trade of plants and animals, including local wildlife species. Traffic is a joint programme with World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) and International Union for Conservation of Nature. We monitor both legal and illegal wildlife trade including plants. The Southeast Asia team started off with only three people in its Kuala Lumpur office which was set up in 1991. Today we have expanded to 25 personnel within the region – KL, Hanoi, Bangkok and Jakarta. We are the biggest Traffic office in the world and the only NGO that has a memorandum of understanding with the Cites secretariat to develop training material and provide information and resources on the wildlife trade.

Every so often, we hear reports of wildlife shipments being confiscated or seized, just how bad is this trade in Malaysia or the region?
Malaysia has the Wildlife Protection Act 1972, which was a good start compared to other countries, which did not have such laws earlier. Despite the Act and Cites Act passed in 2007, we are seeing an increase in the illegal wildlife trade in Malaysia. If you look at sales – I’m not saying that the trade of all species but some have gone up. The sales of pangolin, for example, have gone up significantly. It is the most popular species that is smuggled, especially to China in frozen form for the meat trade and the traditional medicine market which uses its scales. You cannot breed pangolins or keep them as pets.Hence, with the illegal trade itself, it is a worrying trend in Malaysia and nearby countries. First, we have an efficient transport network and good ports, that in itself is an advantage for the smugglers. Basically it facilitates, indirectly, a lot of smuggling because you don’t expect the enforcement agency to scan or check every cargo that passes through Port Klang, for example.

What animals are protected in Malaysia?
According to the Perhilitan website, in Peninsular Malaysia, there are 740 local species and 1,856 exotic species, which are listed under Cites and protected under the Protection of Wildlife Act 1972 (Act 76). There are two categories of protection – “protected” and “totally protected”. (see full list at www.wildlife.gov.my)

What made Malaysia not just one of the top 10 global hubs for wildlife trafficking but also a harvest and transit point?
Yes, we are among the top 10 smuggling hubs together with the Philippines, Indonesia, Singapore and the United States. Vietnam is also catching up.As for the harvest point … it is because Southeast Asia is rich in bio-diversity. Recent seizures of tigers, fresh water turtles and pangolins reflect their abundance. They are not from outside but harvested in Malaysia.Pangolins have a zero quota and are not for trade even though under Appendix II of the convention you can trade in them. Yet, you still find people trying to smuggle it because of the high demand and value of its meat. But you do see a lot of species like fresh water turtles being heavily harvested. It again goes back to our good infrastructure and geographical location in the centre of the region. We have got one of the best infrastructures in the region and that makes it easy for the smugglers to transport the animals. We have seen more reports of seizures at sea, especially in Johor, and at Kuala Lumpur International Airport and Penang International Airport. However, we have not seen many seizures in Penang lately, we do not know if they are not reported or whether Perhilitan has not released the records of their seizures.

Are there buyers in Malaysia?
Yes, there are Malaysian buyers. In addition, there is also a new trend – trading through the Internet, and the buyers are both Malaysians and foreigners. There are a number of Malaysian websites that sell rare and endangered species. For example, the Madagascar tortoise is being sold widely through the Internet and there is no way of tracing the sellers because most of the time the information on their sites is insufficient to show if they are individuals or companies and their contact numbers are not registered.

Can you tell us how some of the smuggling is done?
Some of the popular methods include strapping birds eggs to the body, coiling snakes into stockings, hiding reptile eggs in clothing and stuffing birds into plastic tubes. Most of the time the most creative smugglers are not Malaysians. But there have been many cases where the Malaysian smugglers stacked up the legal load of dangerous animals like snakes, or the ones that bite, on the top of the box and hide the illegal and less dangerous ones at the bottom. So, there is no way the Customs officers are going to put their hands into the box, although it is their duty to check. They are supposed to check but if you look at the quantity of cargo and containers and the number of items in them, how do you check them all? Even with frozen fish, they pack the legal meat on top and illegal meat in the bottom. The methods are often the same.There are ways of checking if the enforcement officers go through every single box or cargo. I mean it’s not impossible but it is time consuming and the items have to be sent for lab testing. The procedures are tedious with the amount of paper work involved. Not that I am defending them and saying that they need to get rid of paper work, it is their job to protect the wildlife but the lack of manpower and resources often come in the way.Recently, there was a report about a man caught with live pigeons stuffed into each leg of the tights he was wearing under his trousers.

A few years ago, there was this woman who was caught at an Australian airport; she was wearing a huge skirt and when she was passing through the Customs, one of the officers saw that her skirt was moving, and when they checked, they found she had sewn pockets on the skirt to hide little bags of live fish.

The funny ones, tend to be in Thailand, going through the airport or up to Laos or to the borders.

Who are those involved? Are they collectors, businessmen or criminals?
It depends. Most are mules who do not know who the buyers are or where the item will end up. Some of those caught with wild orchids are collectors. There were even researchers who posed as tourists, and tried to smuggle wild orchids and seeds from Kota Kinabalu Park and got caught at the airport. Even ordinary people buy animal body parts for medicine but they do not know these are smuggled items and it is the same with pets, people don’t really know some of the animals they buy in the pet stores may be smuggled animals, especially when they are rare.

Why do you think smugglers are willing to go through so much trouble?
The risk is low and the profits are very high. If someone were caught for drug trafficking, the maximum penalty would be death. But when someone is found guilty of wildlife trafficking or smuggling, the maximum they would get is probably a few hundred ringgit fine. Another important factor is that the burden of proof is on the prosecution to show that certain products contain protected species’ parts. Sometimes the smugglers are just fined RM50 or RM60.

 What are the most easily smuggled animals?
It depends on how creative the smugglers are and – not that I am encouraging people – reptiles, especially tortoises, are one of the easiest to smuggle because at a certain temperature, you can easily bundle them up. The Madagascar tortoises are popular.

Where do smugglers get these animals from?
Selangor is one of the top illegal harvesting points in the peninsula for fresh water turtles. The surrounding states are also high on the list. We also see a lot of wildlife going to Johor and even KL, but it depends on what the wildlife will be used for, decorative items, food, pets or medicines.

What is the best way to curb this illegal trade?
It boils down to the police, Customs and Perhilitan (Wildlife and National Parks Department) ensuring that the provisions in the law are fully used and the judges are not ignorant of the seriousness of the issue. There have been many cases where the prosecutors pushed for the maximum penalty in the Protection of Wildlife Act but the judge or magistrate did not understand the seriousness of the crime. They don’t take it seriously. Usually, it’s a small fine and jail terms are rare. For example, the man caught in Kelantan with a frozen tiger was only jailed a day and fined RM7,000. We have been pushing for a review of the law since 1998. The government said the law was reviewed last year but I don’t know when it will be presented to Parliament and what the new provision are.

Do you think Malaysia has addressed this problem effectively?
To say that nothing has been done is not accurate. We need to also look at the challenges faced by the enforcement agencies. Governments tend to say that they do not have enough resources, budgets for manpower and equipment but if you look at the Wildlife Protection Act and Cites Act, the Customs and police can play a role in helping Perhilitan to seize smuggled wildlife items. You can see collaborations in some seizures but not enough to act as a deterrent to smugglers. The police and customs have powers to take action on the smugglers, however, we don’t see it being done effectively.That is one reason why Southeast Asia is one of the main players in this trade. The police, Customs, Cites and the judiciary should work closely with each other in combating the illegal wildlife trade.

How effective is the Protection of Wildlife Act?
The Act should be reviewed as it is outdated and has many loopholes. There are some provisions in the Act, which could not be revealed, and that alone has hampered the implementation of the law. It doesn’t serve as a deterrent to curb the problem and the lack of awareness and knowledge among law enforcers on the subject is yet another problem. The penalties are too low to act as a deterrent. Many offenders get away with a compound.

How many cases have been solved (over the last 10 years)?
Perhilitan solved a remarkable 6,587 wildlife trade cases from 2005 till January this year. Some 44 cases were taken to court. The department also seized 917 owls in Muar last November and 319 in Kuantan in January. It conducted checks on pet shops under Ops Sayang and the premises of taxidermists and leather hide sellers under Ops 49 and Ops Kulit, last year.Officers from its headquarters raided a house in Muar last November, where nine “totally protected” and four “protected” wildlife species were found in a freezer. The suspect pleaded not guilty and bail was set at RM19,000. The same suspect was apprehended in 2004 for having 182 pangolins and 1.3kg of pangolin scales. He was fined RM7,500. The estimated value of the seizures is RM86,000.Officers also raided a store in Segamat, Johor, last November where 7,093 clouded monitor lizards with an estimated weight of 35 tons were confiscated. The black market value is estimated at RM50-80 a kilo.The department’s officers seized more than RM3 million worth of live and dead exotic wildlife. The seizures followed raids at two locations in Johor. In other raids in the state, more than 13 species of protected animals were seized. Among the animals found were 7,000 clouded monitor lizards, 1,000 owls, pangolins, crested serpent eagles, pythons, mousedeer, Malayan porcupine, wild pigs and bear body parts.

Traffic has launched an online petition to push for a revision of the present law. What has the support from the public been?
The petition asks for changes to the protection of wildlife. The response is disappointing. We have only about 3,700 signatures altogether and our target is about 100,000. It’s been nearly a year and if you look at the list of people who have signed up, a lot of them are from outside Malaysia so we have a lot of foreigners signing in. One of the things about the public is that if they are not affected then it is not their problem. If a tiger is killed, how is it going to affect me and my family? It’s got nothing to do with my family so I’m not going to sign it or they don’t realise its importance. So it’s the understanding of the whole ecosystem that is lacking in Malaysia. And I think environmental education is missing from the syllabus. So you see children, even my nieces, who have pets but they don’t understand where the animals came from and their habitat. So it’s just a matter of going to the pet store, coming back with an animal and playing around with it. I remember when I was a kid I used to go around the drains in Section 14 with some of my friends after school looking for tadpoles and tilapias – we were actually monitoring some of the tadpoles to see how they were growing. It’s so different now in terms of the education before because I remember in school all those years ago, teachers made sure we went out of the class and walked around the school just to see what was around the school. If you ask any kid, “What’s the name of this plant?”, they probably won’t know. Some of the NGOs, for example Malaysian Nature Society and WWF, are doing a great job in educating the public on plants and animals and they’ve been doing it for years but you still see a lot of people not appreciating what is around them. This also reflects on our development: builders and contractors are given permits to develop just about anything. So you wonder who
needs to be educated – the children or the adults.

What are the programmes prepared by Traffic to create awareness among people especially the younger generation?We give talks in schools. We have collaborated with Perhilitan to come up with a national tiger action plan which was launched last year. We go to the villages and towns to talk about the importance of conservation and we encourage villagers to report to Perhilitan or any of these NGOs if they see snares or suspected poachers. For adults, our main focus has been enforcement agencies because we feel we need to sensitise enforcement officers.

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Category: Fund raising, bear farming | Date: Mar 17 2009 | By: Siew Te Wong

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Category: poaching | Date: Mar 13 2009 | By: Siew Te Wong

I know the species is not sun bear, BUT we still need to help!

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Pangolins face worst threat in SE Asia: wildlife official

Mar 2, 2009

KUALA LUMPUR (AFP) — Pangolins face the worst threat from poachers and smugglers in Southeast Asia with inadequate punishment and lack of information encouraging the burgeoning trade, according to a wildlife official.

Trade in the animals, also known as scaly anteaters, is expected to increase unless governments here take tougher action, Chumphon Sukkaseam, a senior official with the Association of Southeast Asean Nations (ASEAN) Wildlife Enforcement Network said.

“More than a 100 tonnes of smuggled pangolin meat heading to China was confiscated in the region last year but that is only 10 to 20 percent of the amount of Pangolin meat successfully smuggled into China,” he said.

“Smuggling will increase unless tough action is taken as pangolins now face the worst threat from smugglers and poachers in Southeast Asia,” Chumphon added, speaking on the sidelines of a workshop on wildlife crime and prosecution for the Malaysian judiciary.

Pangolins are indigenous to the jungles of Indonesia, parts of Malaysia and areas of southern Thailand, with its meat considered a delicacy in China.It is classified as a protected species under the UN’s Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species.

“The main route for smuggling Pangolins is from Indonesia to Malaysia and then through Thailand to Laos or Vietnam which border China,” he added.

Chumphon said the main problem was porous borders between the countries, insufficient information exchange on cases and the small fines given to smugglers.

The head of Malaysia’s wildlife and national parks department Abdul Rasid Samsudin said the government was planning to strengthen its wildlife laws this year.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5iVZj41SEArClPySogN7ov1jlcG2Q

Despite Trade Ban, Poachers Still Seek Pangolins in Southeast Asia

Posted on: Tuesday, 3 March 2009, 15:54 CST

 Pangolins in Southeast Asia are dwindling in numbers due to poaching activities, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Wildlife Enforcement Network said on Tuesday. Poachers have long sought after the scaly anteaters for their meat, which is used for consumption. They also use their scales for traditional medicines.

“More than a 100 tons of smuggled pangolin meat heading to China was confiscated in the region last year but that is only 10 to 20 percent of the amount of Pangolin meat successfully smuggled into China,” Chumphon Sukkaseam, a senior official with ASEAN told AFP.”Smuggling will increase unless tough action is taken as pangolins now face the worst threat from smugglers and poachers in Southeast Asia,” he said.

Despite a trade ban on international pangolin meat trade, poachers continue to hunt the mammals, which are indigenous to the jungles of Indonesia, parts of Malaysia and areas of southern Thailand

“The main route for smuggling Pangolins is from Indonesia to Malaysia and then through Thailand to Laos or Vietnam which border China,” said Chumphon, acknowledging issues with porous borders between the countries, insufficient information exchange on cases and the small fines given to smugglers, AFP reported.Last month, Singapore’s Night Safari became home to two scaly anteaters, marking the first pangolin exhibit in the world.

“As part of our conservation efforts, Wildlife Reserves Singapore will be spearheading our research work on pangolins here, as very little is known about them worldwide. We feel that it is important to protect our native animal,” said Fanny Lai, Group CEO Wildlife Reserves Singapore.

Pangolins are protected under the UN’s Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES).

http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1648436/despite_trade_ban_poachers_still_seek_pangolins_in_southeast_asia/

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Category: poaching | Date: Mar 13 2009 | By: Siew Te Wong

http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2009/3/10/nation/20090310132516&sec=nation

Published: Tuesday March 10, 2009 MYT 1:24:00 PM

Wildlife Dept seizes more than 5,000kg of exotic meat

KANGAR: The Wildlife and National Park Department (Perhilitan) seized more than 5,000kg of wild boar meat and that of other exotic species, after raiding a premise not far from the Malaysia-Thailand border near Padang Besar Monday.

Deputy director for Perhilitan’s Enforcement Unit Celescoriano Razond said 27 wild boar heads, chunks of meat, the remains of 54 civet cats and 10 black longtailed monkeys were also seized and a 50-year-old man detained during the raid.

Celescoriano told reporters Tuesday that the raid was carried out after the department monitored the man’s activities.He added that the man, who will be charged at the Kangar Magistrate’s Court on April 9 under Section 68 of the Protection of Wildlife Act 1972, was later released on bail.

Celescoriano said initial investigations revealed that the man had a licence to trade 5,000kg of wild boar, but the amount found in his possession exceeded 5,000kg while wild boar meat only accounted for about 2,000kg.

The seized products, worth about RM50,000, are believed to be headed to Thailand where such exotic meat was in great demand, he said. — Bernama  

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Wong’s notes:

I do not know who to how to express my concern over the poaching issue in Malaysia now. First, we are fortunate that we are unlike other Southeast Asian countries that do not have the culture and history of consuming wildlife, except the Ibans in Sarawak. But second, we are unfortunate to become a target of poachers who come to poach these wildlife after the wildlife population in the rest of the SE Asian has depleted to a critical point. Some places in this region already experience the “empty forest” syndrome, where the forest is still standing but no wildlife in the forest because of being poached to extinction. We have to do something to stop this. Please read how you can help from my earlier posting, this is the minimum that all of us can do to help.

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Category: Research, Siew Te Wong, sun bear in the wild | Date: Mar 09 2009 | By: Siew Te Wong

To sun bear researchers,

I hope you all agree with me that research on sun bears is seriously lack behind many endangered species and time is running out for sun bears as the habitat and the animal itself are declining in an alarming rate.

Sun bear still remains the least known bear in the world. Over the past few months there have been several students and researchers in Cambodia, Thailand, Malaysia, and Indonesia contacted me about their plans to study sun bears. This is very good news for all of us who love this animal so much. Over the last 10 years I am one of the very few people who studying sun bear in the wild. Thus, I am so happy to see the change now, as many of you want to study sun bears! I have been in contact with most of you and answered questions and help you with all of the resources I have individually. I am very happy to help you all in whatever way I could.

However, because some of you are studying the same aspects and may have similar questions on your study, I think it is time and good for us to help each other by SHARING information and resources. I strongly believe that this is the way to help our understanding on this species without showing selfishness on individual studies but to open up our heart to seek the best information on sun bear that will eventually aid the conservation and research on sun bear in SE Asia. Therefore, I started a discussion group on “Save the Sun Bear” at http://borneozoology.ning.com/group/savethesunbears.

This site http://borneozoology.ning.com/ is started by Dr. Tajjudin Mohd from University Malaysia Sarawak, in the hope of providing a space for students, teachers, zoologists, etc., to discuss topics of their interest in zoology, biology, ecology and anything that we are interested with. So please join us and start the discussion, NOW.

As usual, I will try to answer your questions with all the resources that I have. I also invite Gabriella Fredriksson and Robert Steinmetz, who also spend a lot of time studying sun bears and other bear biologists to join the discussion to give you the best answers and helps for your study and projects.

 So this is what you should do:

1) Go to http://borneozoology.ning.com/, then click join us, sign up to be a member,

http://borneozoology.ning.com/main/authorization/signUp?

2) I would like you to tell us about yourself as much as possible: what university or institution, NGOs, level, program, and what is the main focus of your study.

3) You can share any photos of your study and interest to make people know you better.

4) Then you join the “Save the sun bear” group and start the discussion. Feel free to post questions on any of the existing discussion topic, or create your own if you think of one. Gabriella, Rob, or me, will try our best to answer your questions.

Hope this is clear. What I hope to achieve in this site is to have all of the sun bear researchers feel like a big family where we all helping each other, comparing notes and data, sharing information, etc., to help our studies on sun bear that will eventually help saving the sun bears!

Please join me now. See you all in http://borneozoology.ning.com/!

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Category: bear farming, conservation, threats | Date: Mar 02 2009 | By: Siew Te Wong

Last month I posted an article about one of the cruelest practice we human invented to treat the moon bears and small portion of sun bear in China and Vietnam. Many readers have show their concerns and offer helps to end this practice. While being so far away from China and Vietnam, all of us can do our part to end this practice that should never even begun in the first place.

Jeannette McDermott has launch Ursa Freedom Project. This project is a global campaign to liberate 9,000 bears from crush cages on bile farms in China. The intent is to move the bears from these torturous prisons to the country club at Animals Asia. Together we can do it!

So how can you help? You can help us by getting involve on whatever level you are able — for some it will be simply uploading a poster to an internet site; for others it will be organizing a music concert for an audience of 1,000 people. And everything in between. So it will be different for every person. But we are asking that each person do at least one thing to promote the Ursa Freedom Project so the information spreads far and wide across the globe. We will not only raise sufficient fund to help these bears on the ground, but also raise awareness to end this practice. This practice has to end! There is no second options. The more people who know about Ursa Freedom Project, the more we can help.The first thing for you to do is join the new Action Network and get the html codes for the poster, badge or banner, and then upload as many of these images that you like onto your blog, website, facebook, msn chat room, anything you can think of to help us spread the news.

Just click here to start: http://ursafreedomproject.ning.com/

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