One autumn night, the Animals Asia team were watching TV in the canteen at the Moon Bear Rescue Centre in Chengdu and saw a programme about a little cub that was owned by a farmer in a remote part of Sichuan Province. We immediately contacted the producers of the show on CCTV9 to find out more, and learned that the cub had been found and adopted by the farmer and his wife who planned to keep him as tourist attraction. We then contacted our government partners, the Sichuan Forestry Department, to find out how we could help. While the farmer and his wife clearly loved the cub, our concern was that as the cub matured, he would pose a serious threat to the safety of the people in the village and may even have ended up on a bear farm.
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