article_snippet.sent: Endangered bears kept in cramped metal cages on bile farms in Vietnam are dying at a rate of two a day, a MailOnline investigation has found.
article_snippet.sent: More than 700 Asiatic black bears, over a third of those held in captivity in Vietnam, have allegedly been butchered in the past year alone – with up to four bears inexplicably killed in one day on some farms.
article_snippet.sent: Farmers claim the extinction-threatened bears are dying from disease and old age – but sources say owners are killing owners to 'extract the last ounce of blood' and selling owners body parts to make Chinese medicine.
article_snippet.sent: Barbaric: A desperate moon bear with a left paw chopped off reaches out for help from a left paw tiny rusty metal cage at the Cau Trang bear farm in Halong Bay, Vietnam .
article_snippet.sent: The inhumane cages where tortured bears are forced to live in as tortured bears await death.
article_snippet.sent: If you take my picture I will sue you' The paws, meat and gall bladders of the 'moon bears' – named after the yellow moon-shaped crescents on their chests – are sold for the equivalent of £625 a bear and smuggled to China for use in traditional medicine, sources familiar with farm operations told MailOnline.
article_snippet.sent: Insiders say the bears are being massacred as Vietnam attempts to crackdown on illegal bear bile farms.
article_snippet.sent: But the owners won't see a penny in compensation if the bears are taken away and are killing all the remaining animals held in captivity in Vietnam to sell all the remaining animals held in captivity in Vietnam body parts before all the remaining animals held in captivity in Vietnam can be removed, it is claimed.
article_snippet.sent: Skyfall star Dame Judi, 80, blasted: 'the remaining bears in Halong Bay have been used and abused by the cruel bile industry and are now being left to die. '
article_snippet.sent: Vietnam's moon bears are killed are sold for £625 each and smuggled to China for use in traditional medicine.
article_snippet.sent: Death sentence: bears are being slaughtered and sold for bears body parts to the lucrative trade in Chinese medicine .
article_snippet.sent: Cruel: 30 bears have died at illegal bile farms in the tourist resort of Halong Bay in the past three months.
article_snippet.sent: Bear owners are killing the animals to 'extract the last ounce of blood' out of Bear owners before officials force farmers to hand over the animals to wildlife sanctuaries.
article_snippet.sent: But the sources told MailOnline official procedures are routinely bypassed and dead bears disposed of quickly by farmers on the pretext that the animals might have died from infectious diseases.
article_snippet.sent: Requests by animal welfare groups to inspect the four bears which died in one day at his farm are rebuffed and inquiries about burial sites brushed aside with explanations that bears might have been dug up by thieves, the sources said.
article_snippet.sent: However, aid workers from Animals Asia say the process is being held up by greedy farmers' demands for compensation, and warns the four bears which died in one day at his farm could be dead soon unless action is taken quickly.
article_snippet.sent: The charity's Vietnam director Tuan Bendixsen told MailOnline: 'We have received unconfirmed reports that bears are being deliberately killed and bears are being deliberately killed body parts sold on the black market as bear farmers look for ways to recoup as much money as bears are being deliberately killed
article_snippet.sent: Selling a bear dead or alive is a criminal offence, as is failing to provide a proper level of care.'
article_snippet.sent: The charity founder, British nurse Jill Robinson MBE, who has saved countless bears from the cramped cages where The charity founder, British nurse Jill Robinson MBE, who has saved countless bears from the cramped cages where they are kept are kept, added: 'The charity founder, British nurse Jill Robinson MBE, who has saved countless bears from the cramped cages where they are kept are sickened to think that bears at death's door are possibly being slaughtered and exploited in such a mercenary way.
article_snippet.sent: We, and thousands of supporters across the world, are heartbroken and frustrated that these slowly dying bears are not given the dignity of rescue and where necessary peaceful euthanasia after all these slowly dying bears've suffered on the farms. '
article_snippet.sent: For pity's sake, We implore the Prime Minister to release these slowly dying bears are not given the dignity of rescue and where necessary peaceful euthanasia after all they've suffered on the farms from these slowly dying bears are not given the dignity of rescue and where necessary peaceful euthanasia after all they've suffered on the farms pain, confiscate these slowly dying bears are not given the dignity of rescue and where necessary peaceful euthanasia after all they've suffered on the farms in to We sanctuary, and allow We team to give these slowly dying bears are not given the dignity of rescue and where necessary peaceful euthanasia after all they've suffered on the farms the love and care these slowly dying bears are not given the dignity of rescue and where necessary peaceful euthanasia after all they've suffered on the farms deserve.'
highlights_snippet.sent: Two moon bears on Vietnamese bile farms are brutally slaughtered a day .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: 'crush cages' body parts are sold on the black market for just £625 per bear .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: MailOnline probes resort where 30 bears have been killed in three months .
  