A ‘bear ministry’ unites communities and sends smiles around the world
What stands about 7 inches high, sees the world through little button eyes and will soon travel thousands of miles around the globe?
Bear bile-extracting farms near collapse in South Korea
Several bears lie on top of each other, as still as teddy bears, as they gaze out past rusty iron bars. Others pace restlessly. The ground below their metal cages is littered with feces, Krispy Kreme doughnuts, dog food and fruit. They’ve been kept in these dirty pens since birth, bred for a single purpose: to be killed for their bile.
Lions, bears removed from gangster’s property
A man known as Nutzu the Pawnbroker has been indicted for leading a fearsome criminal gang, but the public seems to be more interested in his pets: four lions and two bears.