Bear Protection Act (H.R. 3029)
From Lynn Rogers - 25 Mar 2008
This sounds like something very worthwhile. As long as
there is a market for bile, it will be a choice between getting it from
bear farms or endangering wild populations--until people accept
synthetic substitutes. This bill at least helps protect American
populations and protects Asian populations to the extent that they would
then not be killed to send gallbladders to the US.
Sue, is this something we could put on the bear.org
website to reach the 400,000 people who visit the site each year? If we
can get pictures and video to support it, we should make an exhibit on
this major issue to reach the 35,000-50,000 people who will visit the
North American Bear Center this summer. So many things to do and then
having the DNR fighting against our efforts. Hard to know which
direction to put energy for the most effective education. I suspect it
would be too much of a stretch to try to fit the gallbladder issue into
our BBC/Animal Planet documentary about bear conservation in their
increasingly urbanized environment. I hope a lot of people contact their
congressional representatives.
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