[1] The organization also works "to reduce the demand for bile in Asia by promoting affordable, effective and cruelty free alternatives.
[1] In 2012, the organization expressed its concern when Guizhentang Pharmaceutical Company, which keeps 470 bears to extract bile for traditional Chinese medicine, made a bid to go public on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange.
[4] In February 2009, Animals Asia rescued a dozen malnourished, diseased Asiatic black bears from bile-harvesting farms in southwest China.
[5] In 2016, Animals Asia shed light on the extremely poor conditions of the Grandview Mall Aquarium in Guangzhou, China.
[citation needed] In 2017, Animals Asia reported it had secured an agreement with the Government of Vietnam to end all bear bile farming in the country by 2020.