Animals Asia bear park eviction – the movie

On one side you have the plight of the bears and the park employees but the issue goes much further.  We often talk about the need for transparency versus corruption, but this is as transparent a piece of corruption as you are ever likely to find.

By all accounts embassies, NGOs and international organisations are queuing to lobby the Government on this issue and to add their signatures and voices in opposition.  They see it as pivotal.  If this kind of thing can be allowed to happen then just how serious is Vietnam about developing?  This is going to get a lot bigger and a lot noisier. It’s hard to imagine the bear park winning and yet it’s also difficult to imagine that such a travesty could be allowed to happen. Please share the film.

Who knows something good could yet come out of all of this.  Better even than Animals Asia and its bear park being allowed to carry on with their excellent work – and that alone would be pretty spectacular.