[ANN] From the zoo to the mountains: A Singaporean's quest to rescue bears in Laos

SINGAPORE (Straits Times/ANN) -- Barely six months after trading his uniform at Mandai Wildlife Group for a job at conservation charity Free the Bears, Singaporean Karthiriish Chandra found himself coordinating its most ambitious rescue yet, the extraction of 27 bears from an illegal bile farm in Laos. Rescued in May, the moon bears were freed from a foreigner-run facility operating under the guise of a zoo. Such farms feed the regional demand for bear bile, an ingredient used in traditional med

By The Korea Herald