CBCGDF Volunteers Share Suggestions on How to Transform Bear Farms into Friendly Tourist Attractions

 With Asian countries such as South Korea and Vietnam gradually phasing out bear farming, and the widespread use of bear bile substitutes such as ursodeoxycholic acid internationally, the bear farming industry is bound to disappear from the historical stage.

 


Take South Korea as an example. More than a decade ago (2014), the South Korean government reached an agreement with the Korean Bear Farming Association and formulated a plan for bear farms to voluntarily withdraw from the bear bile farming industry. As an important part of the plan, in order to prevent more black bears from entering the bear bile industry, bear farms are encouraged to sterilize their black bears.

 

Vietnam has also taken great steps to ban the bear farming industry. After nearly 20 years of continuous efforts, the number of captive black bears in farms has dropped by 96%, from about 4,300 in 2005 to 190 in September 2024. At present, 46 of Vietnam's 63 provinces and cities do not have captive black bears for bile extraction.

 

Against the backdrop of breakthrough progress in domestic research on artificial bear bile, where will the existing bear farming industry go?

 

In fact, some bear farms can rely on existing resources to transform into friendly tourist attractions. The following are some suggestions for the transformation of the bear farming industry into a tourist attraction made by volunteers from the Black Bear Reserve of the China Biodiversity Conservation and Green Development Foundation (CBCGDF) for your reference:

 

1. Planning and design: scientific zoning, landscape creation.

2. Facility construction: safety facilities, supporting facilities.

3. Black bear protection and display: life guarantee, behavior display.

4. Science and education: venue construction, event development.

5. Marketing and promotion: brand building, channel promotion.

 

Original Chinese Article: https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/8rJFJB-ntkGmTqN7Qm1vDg

Translator: Maggie

Editor: Maggie

Checked by: Richard     

Contact: v10@cbcgdf.org; +8617319454776

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