Superbear & Panda Girl

This moon bear and panda fighting duo use their super powers and passion to rescue fellow bears already held captive in small cages in the horrific “bear bile farming” industry of Asia. They also try to prevent poachers from killing bears in the wild, to illegally sell these bears’ gall bladders, the organ which contains the bile that some people in Asia superstitiously believe heals many completely unrelated diseases. Even though some older Asian people insist that only bear bile taken from bears has healing powers—man-made substitutes now exist.

Sadly, after poachers kill mother bears fighting to protect their cubs—they steal their cubs and illegally sell them into lives of physical and psychological misery—for the cubs are locked in “crush cages” too small for them to turn around in or to stand upright—until their death, sometimes after 30 years! These cold-hearted or uneducated bear “owners” insert permanent tubes through the bear’s bodies into their gall bladders, to extract liquid bile each day—causing severe pain, infections, and mental stress.

These poor bears will never touch grass, or socialize with other bears…until they are rescued! Then they are brought to outdoor rehabilitation centers to live out their lives in freedom, play, and make friends with other rescued bears.

While countries such as Vietnam have recently banned bear bile farming, the practice is still legal in China—where several massive, multi-billion dollar pharmaceutical companies hold thousands of captive, sad bears, from whom they extract bile. These companies argue that holding captive bears prevents poachers from killing wild bears for bile, because their captive bears produce enough bile to meet people’s demand.

In addition, they even boast that because their method of extracting bile from bears is germ-free and does not cause infections, it is not cruel. Sadly, these companies are making such enormous sums of money imprisoning these bears, that they find it difficult to stop. So, educating people about the cruelty of this practice, and that substitutes exist, is vital.