You can do a lot, and every little bit helps!
Here are some suggestions:
1. Learn about bear farming and the illegal bear gall bladder and bile trade in the United States, then tell others. Learn the facts and
understand the science so you can counter uninformed arguments. 2. Become an advocate for HR 5534. The most important thing you can do is contact your own U.S. Representative and two U.S. Senators and ask them to co-sponsor the Bear Protection Act.This link finds your senators and representatives: look up your delegation. You can also just call the Capitol
switchboard at 202-225-3121. Give the operator your ZIP code and they will connect you to your representative's office. 3. Start your own petition to help end bear farming in China. Click here for instructions. 4. Do you know any TCM (traditional Chinese medicine) practitioners? If so, inform them of the advantages of pharmaceutical UDCA and why this is the best way to get the benefits of bear bile.
Explain that bear bile products are flawed as medicinals and are the result of extreme animal cruelty. 5. If you are a hunter, or know hunters, tell them about HR 5534. The support of hunters will go a
long way in this fight. Even if they don't support HR 5534, their awareness of the problem is very important. We want poaching for gall bladders to stop, and the eyes and ears of hunters can help! Please keep in mind that the goal is to stop poaching, not legal hunting. 6. Do you know someone in the government? Talk to them.
Do you know a celebrity?
Celebrities can be invaluable.
Our country loves celebrities of all kinds and they can gain access and
use their influence to help.
7. Use your creativity to think of ways to forward this
agenda. Send us information; send us
ideas. This site is dynamic and is updated frequently to make it more accurate and current. We've improved this site over the past six months because of outside input. You can help this process. You can help us help bears. 8. If you want to give money, read the descriptions of the
different organizations and what they will do with your money. By all means give them some.
As individuals there is little we can do. As an aggregate of interested and informed
advocates, much is possible.
As individuals there is little we can do. As an aggregate of interested and informed
advocates, much is possible.