Today, there are 1,140 Moonbears in South Korea being farmed for their bile for medicinal purposes. In August 2010, a leading news channel exposed a video of a bear farm in Gyeonggi Province, extracting bile from the gallbladder of a live Moonbear. Soon after, a National Congressman tabled a bill, to consider putting a ban to bear farming in South Korea. However, the bill has not been passed. This is the first time in 30 years history that Moonbears have hope, for a different fate. But we cannot do this alone.
We are a non-profit organization that is focused to bring awareness of moon bears that are in captivity for bear bile extraction in Korea.
All of the effort is done by people who decided to donate their time and/or money to the campaigns and events we had so far
All of the effort is done by people who decided to donate their time and/or money to the campaigns and events we had so far
1st campaign: November 6th, 2010 in Itaewon
- Pictures
- Printed over 8,000 copies of flyers for distribution (Download)
- Petition Signatures: 660 Petitions
- Fundraising from Moonbear Toys & Donations: 547,000 Korean won
- Media Coverage
- Yonhap News (Reporter Gyeyeon Kim)
- Asia Today (Reporter Jungmin Ryu)
- Asia News Agency (Asia News Reporter Seungil Ryu)
- BBC NEWS (Reporter John Sudworth)
2nd campaign: May 1st, 2011 in Itaewon
- Pictures
- 500+ Petition signatures
- 600,000 won donations in bear sales
3rd Campaign Event - Hello Moon Bear: May 21st, 2011 in Seoungnam Art Center in Bundang
- Much appreciations to Ysaac Kim who is the curator of Hello Museum. She contacted us after our May campaign event and wished to support our organization. We joint hosted this event in Seongnam Art Center.
- Pictures: #1 and #2
Activities include:
- English Storytelling
- Ura’s Dream Book reading
- Art competition
- Face painting
- Erasing of the cage moonbear is in and turning the cage into bamboo trees (Artwork size: 244x122cm)
- Putting heart stickers on the moonbear shaped painting (Artwork size: 244x122cm)
- Performance by TaeKwondDo Olympian Daniel Trenton
4th Campaign at Songpa Children’s Library: June 11th, 2011
- Successful campaign teaching children about moonbears in Korea and bringing awareness campaign through various children’s activities including storytelling, facepainting, and arts and crafts.
- Pictures
The 5 Action Plan!
- Register on our website and spread awareness.
- If you cannot sign our petition physically in the upcoming event, please visit our sister organization, Bear Necessity‘s site and add one more signature to the Petition.
Let’s push this bill through! - Donate/Buy a bear (Help us fundraise to continue our campaigns)
- Join our cause on Facebook and Twitter page.
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