Bear Necessity - Vietnam
Originally published in Traveller - The Sydney Morning Herald and The AgeExcerpt
The bear sighs. Sounds human.
She’s invisible in a steel cage, a shadowy mound curled into herself, concealing the glorious lemon crescent of moon emblazoned on her chest. Unthinkably, she’s been incarcerated for 24 years, until two days ago, when she was rescued from a bear bile farm and delivered to a sanctuary in the lush foothills of the Tam Dao mountain range in Northern Vietnam …