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| On March 28, 2007, UK artist Pollyanna Pickering and her daughter/manager Anna-Louise Pickering departed for Bhutan sketch and paint the rare flora and fauna of this largely undisturbed region of the Himalayas.
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| Pollyanna Pickering Foundation funds Education Programme |
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The Pollyanna Pickering Foundation has raised $12000.00 to fund an education programme to re-train workers from a bear bile farm in China to work as bear carers at Animals Asia sanctuaries. In Autumn last year Pollyanna was pleased to have the opportunity to formally present Animals Asia Founder Jill Robinson (above left) with a cheque.
Born and raised in England, Jill was always interested in the welfare of animals. As a child she volunteered at a vets during her school holidays. In the mid-1980s she moved to Hong Kong, where she began working for the International Fund for Animal Welfare, focusing on work in China and South Korea. In 1993, Jill visited a bear bile farm in China. At the time she estimates that around 10,000 Asiatic moonbears were caged in horrific conditions at farms similar to that one, where bile is extracted from the bear's gallbladder for use in traditional Chinese medicines . From then on, Jill almost single-handedly alerted the world to the cruel practice of bear farming. For the next seven years, she researched the way bile was used and negotiated with the Chinese government. In 2000, the Sichuan Forestry Department signed a pledge with the China Wildlife Conservation Association to release 500 bears from the bile farms with the worst conditions. This marked the first time an agency of the Chinese government had come to an official agreement with any animal welfare organization. To house the released bears, Jill founded Animals Asia Foundation and established a bear rescue centre in Chengdu. The foundation has since begun a similar sanctuary in Vietnam, where there are also thousands of bear bile farms. Pollyanna first began working with Jill in 2000, helping to raise funds for the creation of the first sanctuary.
At the beginning of 2016 the Pollyanna Pickering Foundation was able to send an additional $2550.00 to Animals Asia for the ongoing care of Polly Bear – our rescued bear who lives in the Vietnam sanctuary. Our grateful thanks to all of Polly’s Friends, who helped us achieve this total and support our bear for another year – and to the North Derbyshire Animal Support Group for their generous contribution.
If you would like to find out more about Polly bear’s story, or Befriend our bear, please visit www.pollyannapickering.co.uk/foundation.htm
You can find out more about the work of Animals Asia at www.animalsasia.org
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