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Moon Bears Rescued from Bile Farm in Vietnam

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It's great that they were saved, but t hey arrived at the rescue center in wretched condition. Thank Animals Asia for the rescue. Moon bears are rare, which makes this all the sadder. Please note that the illegal bile farm was Taiwanese-owned. Again, the China connection. I can't read such stuff without being sickened by my species.

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Edward’s Pheasant

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It has not been seen in its small home range in central Vietnam since around 2000. Concern for the future of this species is such that the WPA and BirdLife International-Vietnam Programme are working together to organize immediate action. Conservationists searched intensively in 2011 but found none.

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Locked in Guangxi: An epidemic adventure, searching for birds

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For the Chinese New Year 2022 holidays, my girlfriend and I decided to visit the remote areas of Guangxi in the South of China, at the border to Vietnam. A that point in time, I could not imagine the adventure that I was going to experience and how birds would have rescued me. On February 3, our plane landed in Nanning.

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