INNOVATIVE SURGERY GIVES BLIND BEARS SIGHT UK veterinary charity restores vision to animals across the world
A team of vets from the UK has given the gift of sight to rescued Moon Bears in China, thanks to pioneering new equipment.Claudia Hartley and David Donaldson from the UK’s Animal Health Trust (AHT) charity, travelled to the Animals Asia Foundation’s Moon Bear Rescue Centre in Chengdu, China to perform the innovative and life-altering surgery. The AHT vets operated on ten bears in total, extracting cataracts in some cases and correcting vision in others. The Moon Bears are rescued from torturous bear bile farms, where their bile is milked for use in Chinese medicines on a daily basis. They