Aleisha Caruso and Ashleigh Young travel to Vietnam on a mission to rehabilitate Asiatic Black Bears which have been freed from horrific captivity.
Throughout South East Asia bears are kept in cramped cages and “milked” for their bile which is in high demand for its supposed medicinal powers. The practice has recently been made illegal, which means the authorities have been able to free some bears - but they have have to be looked after since they cannot be released back into the wild.
Ash and Aleisha raise money for a new enclosure in Cat Tien National Park in Vietnam in their own unique way - by entering an Afro-Caribbean dance contest as a ‘dare-for-a-bear’ fundraiser.
The pair then travel to Cat Tien to hand over equipment and see for themselves the project to allow freed bile bears to live the rest of their lives as normally as possible.