Our beautiful 2025 wall calendar features 13 of the 15 survivors from the world's largest moon bear cub confiscation and rescue, which occurred in Laos in March of 2024.
We hope these gorgeous survivors provide inspiration & joy to you throughout every day of 2025. The calendar displays one month per page (double A4 when open).
Each of these cubs is available for adoption and naming - please get in touch if interested. For more information about adoption, please see our Sponsor or Adopt page.
NOTE: ALL calendars are sent by Australia Post from Australia without tracking - please expect higher postage rates for orders outside of Australia & allow a reasonable period for delivery. Our office will close for 2 weeks from December 20, any calendar orders made after December 19 will be processed and sent on January 4, 2025. For non Australian orders, delivery may take 3 to 6 weeks, our apologies, it is out of our control, deliveries are slowed during holiday periods. If you have not received your calendar within 4 weeks of order, please contact us to follow up.
In March 2024, we were shocked to learn that 16 tiny orphaned moon bear cubs had been discovered by our government partners in the Laos capital, Vientiane. Between 2 and 4 months old and weighing 1.3 to 4kg, there was no time to spare to ensure their survival.
Members of our team departed immediately to provide emergency care whilst we scrambled a larger team for the rescue mission. With the help of Environmental Police officers, the cubs were transferred for overnight care at Police Headquarters. The offender, a Chinese businessman who had allegedly ‘ordered’ the cubs from poachers with the intention of setting up a bear bile farm, is still on the run. The cubs required bottle feeding every 3 hours and after a long 24 hours with little sleep, the rescue convoy made it back to our Luang Prabang Wildlife Sanctuary.
We needed to call in help from overseas to deal with so many mouths to feed. For the smallest cubs it was touch and go and despite our best efforts, sadly, one cub didn’t make it. However, the remaining 15 pulled through and 13 feature in this calendar.
This is the world’s largest recorded rescue of threatened bear cubs and 2024 is also our largest year of rescues in our 29 years helping bears, with 30 bears rescued already this year.
None of this would be possible without your kind support. All of the cubs that feature in the calendar have not yet been named and are available for adoption (a key method of fundraising to support their care). Contact us for details if you are interested in welcoming a bear fur-child to your family. Have a wonderful 2025!
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