Man Will Start a Eight-Day Cycle to Raise as Much as Possible for a Charity to Help Asia Moon Bears: What are Moon Bears and How Can You Help?

Free and happy Moon Bear


Not so free and not so happy Moon Bear in very small cage

This is an amazing action. Truly getting off your couch and doing something.

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What are Asiatic Moon Bears and why are they in need of help?

Below you will find a synopsis that will explain Moon Bears and why they are in need of help. This comes from http://www.animalsasia.org/index.php?module=2&menupos=7&lg=en

Please visit this page and this group – Animals Asia – to find out more about this horrible issue.

And again, if you would like to sponsor Leon you can do so by logging onto his website www.justgiving.com/leonmoore or call 07989 607770.


“In countries across Asia, thousands of bears live a life of torture on bear farms, so that their bile can be extracted and used in Traditional Medicine to cure ailments ranging from headaches to hemorrhoids. Bears are confined in cages which vary from agonizingly tiny "crush" cages to larger pens, all of which cause terrible physical and mental suffering. But their torment does not end there.....the bears are subjected to painful methods of bile extraction which involve crude surgery to implant a steel catheter into the abdomen or the creation of a permanent hole in the abdomen known as the "free-dripping" technique. Many bears die as a result of the unsanitary surgery and those that survive spend the rest of their lives suffering in pain and deprivation. Whilst the methods of farming bears for their bile vary across Asia and are continually 'evolving', ALL of them are incredibly cruel and totally unacceptable.”


Article:

Leon pedals for bear bid

http://www.thisiswiltshire.co.uk/

By Kevin Burchall

AN ANIMAL rights campaigner is set to embark on the toughest fundraising challenge of his life in an effort to help the plight of bears in the Far East.

Leon Moore, 30, of Marlowe Avenue, Park North, will start a gruelling eight-day cycle from John O'Groats to Lands End on Monday and hopes to raise as much cash as possible for the charity Asia Bears.

Leon, a doorman for a nightclub in Bristol, said: "The route I'm cycling is about 950 miles in total and I plan to do it in eight days.

"The charity is raising money for the Moon Bears, which are bears that are kept on farms in Asia.
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"The bears are caged up in crush cages so they cannot move and they are kept in those cages for their whole lives.

"They have 18-inch tubes put in their stomachs, which extract their bile to be used in medicines. I read about the bears and I was so appalled I had to do something about it."

Leon has previously raised money to stamp out cruelty to monkeys, but his latest fundraising idea is by far the most gruelling both physically and personally.

"I've done fundraising for whole days, but never anything this big," he said.

"I don't normally cycle, but I've been out on the bike for the last seven months every day.

"I basically do between two and four hours training a day on the push bike and I think I underestimated how hard it was going to be.

"I didn't realise how much it was going to take out of me, but it has also put a big strain on my relationship.

"I've literally been coming home from work, going straight out on the bike and then going to bed at about 7pm every night because I'm so knackered."

But Leon's partner, 36-year-old Sarah Powell, has proved to be a tower of strength to him.

"Sarah is going to drive a van, which has been donated by Stuart Boyer of M4 Self Drive, while I complete the bike ride just to make sure I'm safe and sound," Leon said.

"I'll be doing something like 100 miles a day, but I'm sure it will be worth it once I've finished."

If you would like to sponsor Leon you can do so by logging onto his website www.justgiving.com/leonmoore or call 07989 607770.