These Asian Bears Were Cut Open for Their Bile

Feature

June, 2025

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/inside-the-formidable-effort-to-rehabilitate-bears-harmed-by-bile-farming-in-asia-180986688/

This piece is an in depth look at the effort to rehabilitate bears rescued from Vietnam's bear bile industry. I traveled to a bear sanctuary for on the ground reporting, as well as interviewing experts in the field.