[wildtrade] Animals Asia’s Vietnam Bear Rescue Centre faces eviction and relocation (Press release)

[Phan Thuy Trinh AAFVN]

*Dear friends, *

Animals Asia’s Vietnam Bear Rescue Centre faces eviction and relocation
following an aggressive campaign against it by the director of Tam Dao
National Park, Do Dinh Tien. On Friday 5 October, the Ministry of
Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) informed Animals Asia that the
Ministry of Defence has issued an order to evict the sanctuary operation
and its 104 rescued bears.

The closure would see 104 bears that have been rescued from the bile
industry evicted, 77 local Vietnamese staff made unemployed, and financial
losses to Animals Asia of more than US $2 million. The local economy that
depends on the centre would be severely impacted, and the Vietnamese
government’s commitment to ending bear bile farming would be called into
question.

Animals Asia is calling on the public in Vietnam, and internationally, to
write to the Prime Minister of Vietnam, and appeal for him to allow the
Vietnam Bear Rescue Centre that he previously approved and endorsed to be
allowed to continue operations, and expand, in line with the government’s
original agreement. Details can be found on Animals Asia’s website here:
http://www.animalsasia.org/StopTheEviction
*
You can help us by sharing the petition online to more people, so that we
can save our sanctuary for the bear! *

Please see Animals Asia' s Media Release for the full story.

Thank you and kind regards,

-- 

Trinh Thuy. Phan M.A.
Communications Officer Vietnam
Animals Asia Foundation
Tel: (+84-4) 392 89264
Mob: (+84) 914502998
www.animalsasia.org
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