Jeanette McDermott's Posts - Architects of a New Dawn2024-03-28T14:41:00ZJeanette McDermotthttps://architectsofanewdawn.ning.com/profile/JeanetteMcDermotthttps://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2980487743?profile=RESIZE_48X48&width=48&height=48&crop=1%3A1https://architectsofanewdawn.ning.com/profiles/blog/feed?user=7dhthus9h99f&xn_auth=noCompassion for the world's bearstag:architectsofanewdawn.ning.com,2010-01-10:2227378:BlogPost:1495462010-01-10T18:33:04.000ZJeanette McDermotthttps://architectsofanewdawn.ning.com/profile/JeanetteMcDermott
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<b><i>The world's eight species of bears are in desperate need of psychic support and healing energy. Six of the eight species are perched on the brink of extinction due to human activities related to habitat loss and illegal trafficking and trade of bears and their body parts</i></b>.<br />
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We burn and clear forests for personal gain. When bears search for food because they can no longer find it in destroyed habitat, we call them nuisances and cry out in…
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<b><i>The world's eight species of bears are in desperate need of psychic support and healing energy. Six of the eight species are perched on the brink of extinction due to human activities related to habitat loss and illegal trafficking and trade of bears and their body parts</i></b>.<br />
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We burn and clear forests for personal gain. When bears search for food because they can no longer find it in destroyed habitat, we call them nuisances and cry out in fear, “bear-human conflict!” and then kill the hungry bear. We kill the babies too.<br />
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But sometimes we don’t, and then the orphaned cubs live in terror and agony trying to survive. Unless rescued through an act of humanity, the orphaned cubs eventually succumb to slow painful deaths through starvation. Others freeze to death without the warmth of their mother, and others, while roaming fruitlessly in search of a dead mother, become prey for other large animals.<br />
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Other people poach bears for the benefit they gain from the lucrative black market that supports our penchant for Asian medicines and desire for “food delicacies” and foolish entertainment. We kill bears for “sport” and hunt them down as “trophies” to strip them of their skin. We consume excessive amounts of energy, an action that melts polar ice caps -- the one and only habitat for polar bears.<br />
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And in the process of satisfying our insatiable appetite for self-indulgence, we reduce the one thing on Earth that sustains us all: biodiversity.<br />
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Please help the bears through your actions, thoughts, prayers and meditative practices. They need our intervention if they are to survive. To learn more about the plight of the world's bears, please visit <a href="http://ursafreedomproject.ning." target="_blank">Ursa Freedom Project</a>.Bear Bile Tourism in Vietnamtag:architectsofanewdawn.ning.com,2009-09-11:2227378:BlogPost:1219402009-09-11T02:42:54.000ZJeanette McDermotthttps://architectsofanewdawn.ning.com/profile/JeanetteMcDermott
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<b><i>There is a dirty little secret in Vietnam, and it's called Korean Bear Tourism.</i></b><br />
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ENV, a wildlife watchdog group in Vietnam, has documented busloads of Korean tourists visiting bear farms where they witness a bear bile extraction, taste bear bile wine, and buy products made from bear body parts. The tourists take the illegal products home to Korea at the end of their visit, violating international law.<br />
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ENV is working to shut the…
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<b><i>There is a dirty little secret in Vietnam, and it's called Korean Bear Tourism.</i></b><br />
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ENV, a wildlife watchdog group in Vietnam, has documented busloads of Korean tourists visiting bear farms where they witness a bear bile extraction, taste bear bile wine, and buy products made from bear body parts. The tourists take the illegal products home to Korea at the end of their visit, violating international law.<br />
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ENV is working to shut the operation down. In the meantime, ENV is also educating Koreans about their complicity in these crimes against wildlife. ENV has contacted Korean Airlines to warn customers before they arrive in Vietnam, and the group is targeting hotels where Korean tourists stay in Hanoi and Ha Long Bay, providing Korean language warnings and encouraging tourists to avoid bear farms during their visit. In Hanoi, the Melia, Fortuna, and Sheraton hotels are displaying advisories for their clients.<br />
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As ENV targets tourists with warnings, they say, "We remain hopeful that the Quang Ninh provincial government will take appropriate steps to end the illegal activities at bear farms in their province, and preserve the sanctity of Ha Long Bay as a World Heritage Site from the shadow of illegal bear farms just down the road."<br />
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More than 4000 bears are currently registered as being on bear bile farms in Vietnam. The Forest Protection Department has a plan to phase out bear farming by preventing new bears from ending up on farms, punishing violators and confiscating bears from farmers that are caught breaking the law. In practice, however, few bears are confiscated and farmers receive a slap on the wrist at best, and return to violating the law.<br />
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<b><i>ENV staff infiltrated a bear farm and documented on film a bear bile extraction as Korean customers watched. ENV is a Vietnam wildlife watchdog group that is trying to get this place shut down.</i></b> <a href="http://www.envietnam.org/library/news-activities.html" target="_blank">Read more</a>.New Law Protects Animals in Boliviatag:architectsofanewdawn.ning.com,2009-08-14:2227378:BlogPost:1107952009-08-14T02:05:55.000ZJeanette McDermotthttps://architectsofanewdawn.ning.com/profile/JeanetteMcDermott
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<b><i>Uncork the champagne and celebrate a major victory for animals! Bolivia has enacted the world's first law that prohibits the use of animals in circuses. If activists can shut down animal circus acts in Bolivia, <a href="http://ursafreedomproject.ning.com" target="_blank">a global action network on Ning</a> can shut down bile farming in China and Korea!</i></b>There's great hope from the precedence this law sets.<br />
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<b><i>Uncork the champagne and celebrate a major victory for animals! Bolivia has enacted the world's first law that prohibits the use of animals in circuses. If activists can shut down animal circus acts in Bolivia, <a href="http://ursafreedomproject.ning.com" target="_blank">a global action network on Ning</a> can shut down bile farming in China and Korea!</i></b>There's great hope from the precedence this law sets.<br />
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A small handful of countries have banned the use of wild animals in circuses, but the Bolivian ban includes domestic animals as well, making the new law in Bolivia the dawning of a brand new day. The law took effect July 1.<br />
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The law was proposed after an undercover investigation by the nonprofit London-based group Animal Defenders International (ADI) found widespread abuse in circuses operating in Bolivia. The group's undercover investigators in Bolivia worked side-by-side with circus workers and other animal welfare groups to film disturbing mistreatment of the animals.<br />
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Rep. Ximena Flores sponsored the bill to enact the law after seeing the video footage. The law she enacted states that the use of animals in circuses "constitutes an act of cruelty." The law sets fines for infractions and allows for animals to be confiscated by authorities. Circus operators have a year to comply to the new law.<br />
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Flores said authorities are now working to prevent circus operators from killing animals they can no longer use. About 50 animals are circulating in national and international circuses at the moment in Bolivia.<br />
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ADI chief executive Jan Creamer said circus animals suffer everywhere, including in wealthy countries such as The United States.<br />
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<a href="http://www.ad-international.org/alerts/?id=1508" target="_blank">Click here</a> to help ADI end suffering of circus animals and to help stop a U.S. “Reality” Show about Ringling Brothers Circus. Posted from <a href="http://ecopaparazzi.ning.com" target="_blank">ecopaparazzi</a>.Tiny Bear Cubs in Loving Caretag:architectsofanewdawn.ning.com,2009-04-24:2227378:BlogPost:686662009-04-24T18:32:52.000ZJeanette McDermotthttps://architectsofanewdawn.ning.com/profile/JeanetteMcDermott
I love a happy wildlife rescue story! Not all rescues end happily ever after, and even this rescue story that I'm about to post has a tragic note, because the mama bear was killed to poach the baby cubs. The poachers took the twins to an illegal bile farm in Vietman. But the Environmental Police raided the bile farm and rescued the itty bitty cubs. They are now in the custody and care of loving people at Animals Asia. I thought everybody here would like to read this story of rescue.…
I love a happy wildlife rescue story! Not all rescues end happily ever after, and even this rescue story that I'm about to post has a tragic note, because the mama bear was killed to poach the baby cubs. The poachers took the twins to an illegal bile farm in Vietman. But the Environmental Police raided the bile farm and rescued the itty bitty cubs. They are now in the custody and care of loving people at Animals Asia. I thought everybody here would like to read this story of rescue.<br />
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<i>Bear cubs rescued in Vietnam</i><br />
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Animals Asia's Vietnam bear sanctuary has two new residents: tiny twin Moon Bear cubs. Following a tip-off, the Environmental Police raided an old bile farm on Sunday, which used to have bears. They confiscated the cubs, and the cubs are now in the care of Animals Asia. The itty bitty babes -- Maggie and Damo -- received immediate veterinary care at Animals Asia and are reported to be in good health.<br />
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According to Animals Asia's bear manager, "Maggie is very shy and laps milk from her bowl, clearing up every last drop very quickly. Damo is very energetic and plays rough, and he won’t lap from a bowl, preferring to take his milk from a bottle.”<br />
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Successful rescue missions are the focal point of animal welfare work, but they aren't possible without donor support. It costs $9,000 a year for Animals Asia to medically treat a rescued bear and feed, rehabilitate and keep her in good health. The cubs need sponsors, like so many other rescued bears at the sanctuary. Please support UFP's Earth Day Bear Sponsorship drive and donate today. All donation sizes are vital to the continuation of rescuing moon bears from lives of unending torture and pain. Donations are tax deductible in Hong Kong, Australia, UK, Germany and USA. The online donation pages at UFP and Animals Asia are encrypted via the highest SSL server for your security. Learn more about other bear rescues at <a href="http://ursafreedomproject.ning.com">Ursa Freedom Project</a>. And now for a real treat ... watch <a href="http://ursafreedomproject.ning.com/video/bear-cubs-rescued-in-vietnam">video footage</a> of the rescued Moon Bear cubs.<br />
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Earth Day is the best reminder that <b>We Are One</b> with All Earth Beings!<br />
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I'm calling on my nature-loving, animal-loving friends to help me spread the word about the Earth Day Bear Sponsorship drive at Ursa Freedom Project. Will you help by sending out Twitter messages to your followers? Here are some Tweet examples that others have sent to help save the Moon Bear:<br />
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Earth Day is the best reminder that <b>We Are One</b> with All Earth Beings!<br />
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I'm calling on my nature-loving, animal-loving friends to help me spread the word about the Earth Day Bear Sponsorship drive at Ursa Freedom Project. Will you help by sending out Twitter messages to your followers? Here are some Tweet examples that others have sent to help save the Moon Bear:<br />
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UFP Earth Day Bear Sponsorship <a href="http://ursafreedomproject.ning.com/">http://ursafreedomproject.ning.com/</a><br />
goal: raise $9K to sponsor rescued bear that needs TLC. Thanks!<br />
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Sponsorship means a bear goes from a bile farm crush cage to freedom!<br />
Go to UFP to get involved <a href="http://ursafreedomproject.ning.com/">http://ursafreedomproject.ning.com/</a><br />
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PLEASE HELP UFP Earth Day Bear Sponsorship <a href="http://ursafreedomproject.ning.com/">http://ursafreedomproject.ning.com/</a><br />
goal: sponsor a rescued bear that needs TLC. Thanks!<br />
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Free the bears! Take action! <a href="http://ursafreedomproject.ning.com/">http://ursafreedomproject.ning.com/</a><br />
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Make Earth Day bear day and join a good cause. <a href="http://ursafreedomproject.ning.com/">http://ursafreedomproject.ning.com/</a><br />
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Send love to a once-tortured, but now rescued, Moon Bear. Make a cash donation. <a href="http://ursafreedomproject.ning.com/">http://ursafreedomproject.ning.com/</a><br />
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Give! Help the Earth Day Bear Sponsorship drive. <a href="http://ursafreedomproject.ning.com/">http://ursafreedomproject.ning.com/</a><br />
A big cyber bear hug to you!<br />
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I love Moon Bears and want to set them free. Please help! <a href="http://ursafreedomproject.ning.com/">http://ursafreedomproject.ning.com/</a><br />
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Thank YOU!!!!Benefit for the Bears Music Concertstag:architectsofanewdawn.ning.com,2009-03-07:2227378:BlogPost:484292009-03-07T16:50:09.000ZJeanette McDermotthttps://architectsofanewdawn.ning.com/profile/JeanetteMcDermott
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<i>For 15 years Caesar was locked in a crush cage too small for her large body. Today this is Caesar at the Animals Asia sanctuary. The intention of the Ursa Freedom Project is to liberate 9,000 bears who are still living in crush cages.</i><br />
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Work is underway to organize concerts in Los Angeles, San Francisco, London and other cities across the globe to raise awareness and money to liberate the bears from horrid crush cages on bile farms. A group…
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<i>For 15 years Caesar was locked in a crush cage too small for her large body. Today this is Caesar at the Animals Asia sanctuary. The intention of the Ursa Freedom Project is to liberate 9,000 bears who are still living in crush cages.</i><br />
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Work is underway to organize concerts in Los Angeles, San Francisco, London and other cities across the globe to raise awareness and money to liberate the bears from horrid crush cages on bile farms. A group called <a href="http://ursafreedomproject.ning.com/group/benefit">Benefit for the Bears</a> has formed at the <a href="http://ursafreedomproject.ning.com">Ursa Freedom Project Action Network</a>, with Blue Jay Music Productions coordinating the concerts. Let us know what kind of music you play, where you can perform, where you have music contacts, and who you know that that can help sponsor benefit concerts. Let's do some jamming and give some mighty concerts for the bears!A New Dawningtag:architectsofanewdawn.ning.com,2009-03-03:2227378:BlogPost:440902009-03-03T18:25:09.000ZJeanette McDermotthttps://architectsofanewdawn.ning.com/profile/JeanetteMcDermott
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<a href="http://ursafreedomproject.blogspot.com">Ursa Freedom Project</a>Bear Bile Farming and Why it Must Endtag:architectsofanewdawn.ning.com,2009-02-06:2227378:BlogPost:277012009-02-06T07:00:54.000ZJeanette McDermotthttps://architectsofanewdawn.ning.com/profile/JeanetteMcDermott
<i>Posing as buyers and suppliers in the illegal wildlife trade, eco warriors have taken hidden cameras where some of the most heinous crimes against nature are taking place: on bear bile farms in China. Other Earth saviors have packed unhidden cameras when they've gone on rescue missions to record the conditions of the bears they save and the ones they have to tragically leave behind. These are their photos, their stories, and the history of bear bile farming.…</i>
<i>Posing as buyers and suppliers in the illegal wildlife trade, eco warriors have taken hidden cameras where some of the most heinous crimes against nature are taking place: on bear bile farms in China. Other Earth saviors have packed unhidden cameras when they've gone on rescue missions to record the conditions of the bears they save and the ones they have to tragically leave behind. These are their photos, their stories, and the history of bear bile farming.</i><br />
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<b>Eco Warriors Undercover: Bear bile farming</b><br />
By <a href="http://ecopaparazzi.ning.com">Jeanette McDermott</a><br />
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As many as 10,000 Asiatic black bears in China are locked in cages the size of their own bodies, and their bile is drained through an excruciatingly painful procedure and sold for use in traditional medicine. So they can approach the bears without fear of injury, the farmers often mutilate the bears by breaking their teeth and pulling out their claws, sometimes brutally removing whole digits.<br />
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Milking and selling the bile is not the farmers' only source of profit from the bears. Some farmers amputate one or two paws from live bears to sell to restaurants. When bears are no longer able to secrete bile, they are left to die from sickness or starvation. Bears perceive terror and despair and feel pain the same as we do, and they endure this torture for up to 25 years. Try to imagine it.<br />
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Many of the bears in bile farms are captured illegally in the wild as cubs. Poachers wait until the mother leaves the den in search of food to capture new-born cubs. Sometimes she is killed to get the babies. Other times cubs are born in captivity from pregnant bears that were poached from the wild. In either case, the bear cubs rarely survive the ordeal. Any surviving cubs are removed from their mothers too early and put into cages, where they sometimes grow into the bars as their bodies mature. <br />
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The bears show their distress and suffering by banging their heads against the cage bars, gnawing on the bars, and at times tearing the flesh from their paws and arms in a futile attempt to deflect their thoughts from the main source of pain. The sores bleed, resulting in further serious infection. The bears are usually milked twice a day, before feeding, when more bile is produced. They moan and writhe in pain and clutch their stomachs as the bile drains from their bodies. Sometimes the bears try to pull out the catheters. Those that do, are immobilized in an iron corset. Under-nourished and highly stressed from horrific pain and unnatural confinement, the bears lie in agony, in their own filth.<br />
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<i>This is Willow. He was 10 years old when he arrived at the Animals Asia sanctuary in 2004. He died last year from a massive liver tumor -- a result of his treatment on the bile farm.</i><br />
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"Bear bile farming is the worst animal welfare scenario I have ever encountered," said Swiss born conservation media activist Karl Ammann.<br />
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Amman has been named by Time magazine and CNN as a "Hero of the Environment." He is credited with almost single-handedly raising awareness about the issue of bush meat, the slaughter and consumption of wild -- and often protected -- animals. He has reported on and photographed the likes of hog-tied crocodiles, charbroiled monkeys and severed gorilla heads draining into saucepans, but these don’t compare to bear bile farming he says. <a href="http://ecopaparazzi.ning.com/notes/Bear_Bile_Farming">Read more</a>.<br />
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<i>Workers extract bear bile from the gall bladder of a bear in Myanmar.</i>