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Banner image of the rescued bears, courtesy of Free the Bears.

Three moon bears rescued in first closure of Laos bile farm

Kristine Sabillo 22 Apr 2025

Conservationists look to defy gloomy outlook for Borneo’s sun bears

Carolyn Cowan 31 Oct 2023

Barely making it: A conversation with ‘Eight Bears’ author Gloria Dickie

Mike DiGirolamo 27 Sep 2023

Dickie holds a polar bear skull in Churchill, Manitoba, Canada.

‘We will decide their future’: Q&A with “pro-bear” environmental journalist Gloria Dickie

Jeremy Hance 11 Jul 2023

A giant panda, a species endemic to China, which has benefited from extensive conservation funding and efforts.

Lessons from panda conservation could help Asia’s other, overlooked, bears

Spoorthy Raman 9 May 2022

Green groups call for scrapping of $300m loan offer for Borneo road project

Basten Gokkon 20 Oct 2021

Fate of Malaysian forests stripped of protection points to conservation stakes

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 13 Oct 2021

An orangutan in Sabah, Borneo

Highway cutting through Heart of Borneo poised to be ‘very, very bad’

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 23 Aug 2021

‘Saving sun bears’: Q&A with book author Sarah Pye

John Cannon 29 Jun 2020

What is a sun bear? Candid Animal Cam heads to Asia to meet this elusive bear

Romina Castagnino 12 May 2020

Vietnam’s bear bile farms are collapsing — but it may not be good news

Shreya Dasgupta 11 Jul 2018

Last Glimpses of a Cambodian Paradise? Documenting an area on the eve of its likely destruction (commentary)

Gregory McCann 22 Jun 2018

Illegal trade in bear bile persists in Vietnam despite ban

Shreya Dasgupta 18 Nov 2016

Malayan Sun bear: bile trade threatens the World’s smallest bear

Claire Asher 1 Aug 2016

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