A raid in late March put 16 moon bear cubs within the arms of wildlife rehabilitators who lovingly bottle feed and look after the infants across the clock. Officers rescued the cubs from a poacher’s house in Laos, in accordance with Reuters.
Moon bears, or Asiatic black bears, are endangered thanks partly to poaching and wildlife trafficking. In some components of the world, people use bear bile in drugs (notably in conventional Chinese language drugs).
Poachers hunt and kill moon bears for his or her gallbladders and the dear bile inside. In Asia, “bear farms” preserve dwell bears for bile extraction. Sadly, many bears in these services die of continual an infection or different diseases.
It’s attainable this could have been the 16 moon bear cubs’ destiny. Fortunately, wildlife officers stepped in, and the cubs are actually within the arms of people that have the bears’ finest pursuits at coronary heart.
Moon bears dwell within the Himalayas, Southeast Asia, and components of japanese Asia. Just like the black bears in North America, Asiatic black bears are omnivores. They eat a variety of issues, together with fruit and nuts, bugs, bees and honey, and small mammals.
As you may glimpse within the video, moon bears have a crescent moon-shaped patch of light-colored fur on their chest.
For now, the bear cubs will dwell at a sanctuary in Luang Prabang run by Free the Bears, an Australian wildlife conservation group.
