Community attitudes towards bears, bear bile use, and bear conservation in Luang Prabang, Lao PDR
Abstract Background Bear bile is widely believed across much of Asia to have medicinal properties. As a result, great numbers of bears have been poached from the wild and numerous bear farms have been set up to drain the animals’ bile on a regular basis. Although most such farms are now illegal, the...
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| Language: | English |
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BMC
2019-02-01
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| Series: | Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine |
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| Online Access: | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13002-019-0292-5 |