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Easy Going Chap!!

Big thanks to our lovely volunteer Chung Yu Phei who make this special enrichment for our rescued adult female bear, Simone. Simone enjoys and seems so happy with her new “Cuboid” where she can take a siesta!!

#sunbear #bsbcc #enrichment #rehabilitation #wongsiewte #sepilok

Our volunteer Yu Phei is building the enrichment for Simone. Our bear keeper, Roger and volunteer Michael also help out to build the “Cuboid”

Simone the sun bear enjoying her new enrichment

Do you still remember the bear who has a sorrowful face, Soo? Good news, she had just recently finished her quarantine!

During her time in quarantine, she spends more of her time by staying up high. But she does have her favourite enrichment, Aussie Dog Ball. The Aussie dog ball is filled with her favourite food, dog biscuits and honey. Besides that, keepers are trying to introduce her many kinds of enrichment such as live tree branches, happy sacks and much more. But, she seems to like to play at night time where no one is around her. This is the reason we called her The Nocturnal. She is preferably active at night. We saw her improvement within the 30 days quarantine. She appreciates all the foods that we offer and she can be eating so fast.

Read and see more photos of this story at http://www.bsbcc.org.my/bear-talk-blog/take-your-time-to-know-about-soo-bear

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This week, the BSBCC’s Education Team head to Lahad Datu district together with our partner from Hutan – Kinabatangan Orang Utan Conservation Programme (KOCP). This Environmental Education outreach programme was organized by Hutan-KOCP and they invited BSBCC and Sabah Wildlife Department to participate in their programme. The first school we visited was SK Sabah Cocoa, Lahad Datu which is a rural school located in the middle of a plantation area. It is a low enrolment school (Sekolah Kurang Murid), only 39 pupils enrolled. The second school visited was SK Binuang, Lahad Datu. This school is about 15-20 minutes drive from Lahad Datu Town. Various activities were held during this programme such as talks, games, video show and colouring activity. Each participating organization also set up educational booth for the students and teachers to visit. Thank you Hutan-KOCP for inviting us to be part of the programme and we look forward to join more programmes with our partners in the future.

Colouring activity for Primary 1 & Primary 2 students at SK Sabah Cocoa, Lahad Datu

Talk on sun bear & BSBCC by Bellinda

Posing with their coloured mask

Bellinda explaining the sun bear diet

Interpretation to clouded leopard by Ms Noratika from Hutan-KOCP

Talk on Orang Utan by Mr. Haslan from Hutan-KOCP

Group photo SK Sabah Cocoa, Lahad Datu

Jeremy delivering his talk on sun bears & BSBCC at SK Binuang, Lahad Datu

Question and Answer session with the student after the talk

Mr. Rayner from Sabah Wildlife Department presenting his talk about Sabah’s Totally Protected Species

Students visiting educational booth by Hutan-KOCP

Students visiting BSBCC’s educational booth

SK Binuang, Lahad Datu

Presenting certificate of appreciation

Presenting certificate of appreciation

Presenting certificate of appreciation

Group photo at SK Binuang, Lahad Datu

#education #environmentaleducation #environmentalawareness #wildlifeawareness #awarenessprgramme #bsbcc #lahaddatu

On the 19th of September 2017, BSBCC was invited to SK Kepangian, Ranau to organize a Wildlife Awareness Programme. It is about 4 and half hours drive to this school from Sandakan district. This school is one of the rural schools in Ranau district with 13 teachers and 107 students ranging from 7 to 12 years old. A lot of activities were held during the programme such as talks, video show, wildlife games, wildlife colouring activity and visit to exhibition booths. Besides BSBCC, our partners which were the Wildlife Rescue Unit (WRU) and Hutan – Kinabatangan Orang Utan Conservation Programme (KOCP) also joined us. Huge thanks to SK Kepangian, Ranau for inviting us to their school and also to our partners, thank you for the continuous support! We were really glad to see the students learning more about the Mother Nature.

Talk on Orang Utans by Mr. Haslan from HUTAN-Kinabatangan Orang Utan Conservation Programme

Colouring activity

Video show session with Ms Gloria from BSBCC

Ms Bellinda from BSBCC doing story telling session (The Wild Tree House of Borneo) for the pre school children and Primary 1 to Primary 3 students.

Mr. Jeremy from BSBCC conducting wildlife game

Interpretation to Clouded Leopard using clouded leopard’s costume

Introduction to Sun Bear using Sunny, the mascot

Our audience during the programme

The school’s staffs visiting our display booth

Booth by Wildlife Rescue Unit

Group photo at the end of the programme

How many of you still remember Mary, the orphan sun bear who was rescued from pet trade with her body was shown stunted growth? Here’s the story about Mary who being rescued to her time in quarantine to forming relationships with other orphan bears to stepping out into forest environment, giving Mary a new journey in life. Please be a voice for our precious sun bear! Please spread the word that sun bears are WILD animals that belong in the forest, and NOT to end up behind bars. We need to clear the pet trade, poaching and deforestation. It is not over yet! Please let them enjoy the taste of freedom in the forest where they belong!

© BSBCC / Chiew Lin May

Photo of Mary before rescue

A villager reported that Mary was found in a palm oil plantation while hunting for bearded pigs. Mary was kept as a house pet and ended up spending her life confined in a tiny cage.

Mary slowly recovering from her past and is now living her happy life at BSBCC

Read more about Mary’s story at:

http://www.bsbcc.org.my/bear-talk-blog/mary-the-sun-bears-voice-finding-life-in-the-forest

#bsbcc #sunbear #savesunbear #rescue #rescuebear #rehab #rehabilitation #wildlife #wildliferescue

Million thanks a Thai Volunteer, Suppalak KAEWkwan who had just finished her one month volunteering in BSBCC.

Thanks for helping out the smallest bear species in the world, the Sun Bear! Thank you for sharing your vet medicine’s knowledge and experience in taking care of the animal. Last but not least, thanks for giving a chance in language exchange in between Thai and Malay.

All the best in your writing for your PhD research study and please come back anytime you want for visiting the bears and us! Safe flight to Hokkaido and big bear hugs!

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