Thank you for giving bears a chance
Thank you
For three decades we have worked, alongside partners and with you, our supporters, to end the suffering of bears. From liberating bears from dancing in Greece, Turkey and India to stopping the brutal sport of bear baiting in Pakistan to funding sanctuaries to care for formerly abused bears.
Together, we are changing the lives of bears and ending the cruelty and exploitation they endure so that they can live wild and free as they should be. Forever.
Watch this video and learn about the impact your donations have for bears:
If you have already made your gift to our match this Holiday season, thank you! It is because of you that change for bears and other animals trapped in a life of suffering is possible.
If you haven’t given yet and would like to make a difference for bears, you still have until December 31, 2023 at midnight to make a matching gift and receive your 2023 tax receipt.
Thanks to our generous lead match donors, Sakura’s Hope Foundation, Alan and Patricia Koval Foundation, Anna Saroli and several anonymous donors, have agreed to match your gift dollar for dollar up to $180,000.
When you give before December 31, 2023, at midnight, your gift will have 2x the impact for animals trapped like bears in the global traditional medicine industry. Your gift will help to:
- encourage Chinese medicine practitioners to choose humane herbal and synthetic alternatives instead.
- advocate for a breeding ban in China, to make sure the bears currently in captivity will be the last to suffer such horrors.
- keep up the pressure on the Chinese government to end bear bile farming.
- research options to provide safe sanctuaries where liberated bears can live a wild life.
- protect other vulnerable wildlife species, like lions and tigers from suffering in the global traditional medicine industry.