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Sun Bear climbing tree at BSBCC

5/12/2010

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Sun bear is an arboreal bear. In the wild, they spend a lot of their time on tree harvesting fruits, resting, and sleeping.

This is Suria, one of a female sun bear at Bornean Sun Bear Conservation Centre.

In her state-of-the-art forest enclosure, she can climb trees like a wild bear.

Please help Suria and other sun bears.
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Please visit http://www.bsbcc.org.my/ to learn more about sun bears and BSBCC.
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Volunteer's Diary: Suria's swing

11/6/2010

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By Mark Rusli 
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http://matahari-bears.tumblr.com/post/680321542/suria-swings
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These were probably our last few enrichments for Suria, before we leave on Friday! We added more firehose to her den, because Suria really loves climbing - sometimes she stays on the highest swing and won’t come down for a few hours. It feels like a den constructed for primates!
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To bolster and encourage Suria’s climbing, we’ve been suspending various food-based enrichments at the top of her den. The most successful one had to be this green ball with a hole on one side. We stuffed loads of jackfruits in it, and it lasted TWO DAYS!! On Day Two we came in the morning to find Suria still furiously trying to claw a few remaining pieces of jackfruit out. Wonder if she even slept at all! It’s fascinating watching Suria balance so effortlessly on the swing, almost like a human child. (:

Wednesday, June 9th 2010 10:48pm
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3.05

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It’s 2.45pm. I have approximately an hour and a half left in the Sepilok grounds. In the morning, Amanda and I did husbandry, then rushed down for the orang utan feeding at 10.30am. At 1.00pm we had lunch, expecting a memorable last meal in the cafeteria. We did have one. Not in an ideal way, but it was memorable. Definitely memorable.

Soon I’ll be going back to see the bears for one last time. We bought loads of treats for them: fruits mostly, and packets of dried papaya and mango. Going to stuff their faces. I pity whoever’s doing husbandry tomorrow. Always wanted to say that, but the past few weeks if I did say it, I’ll be kicking myself the next morning. I can finally say it, and mean it. Probably not feel good for the people cleaning tomorrow, but oh well.

I pity whoever’s doing husbandry tomorrow.
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There is so much to be done, and the urgency’s only settling in during my last hours here in Borneo. In 5 minutes I will walk back heavily to the bear house. I will soak in the scent of sun bear poop and relish it. I will scratch Keningau’s nose, feel Jelita’s paws, pat Chong on his fat bum. I will watch Cerah wrinkle and scrunch her nose. I will give Suria an extra snakefruit.

And I will enjoy every second of it, and remember these moments for the rest of my life unless I lose my memory. For they will constantly signify and remind me why the sun bears need saving. And why I’m here in the first place.
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The next time I talk to people about sun bears, I will remember the ones I’ve met, who’ve made an impact on me, even if it was a very short stay. And I will mean every single thing I say.
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~ Mark Rusli
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Suria the sun bear first day out

11/5/2010

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Photos by Charlie Hoare

When you think of it in details, it is not difficult to find out these bears actually have very sad life being pets for some human to start with. They were locked in small cages for all their life to amuse their owners . They were locked behind bars, and confined in small cages; they could either walk on concrete floor or iron bars; they never see the sky on top of their head, and never do what they design and born to do like other wild bears. Trees, soil, sky, sun, rain, and everything in the forest, to these bears, are something that have been stolen in their life from poachers and hunters .

All of our rescued bears have this kind of unfortunate life until we rescued them and moved them to our  new bear house and forest enclosures. Even though they have access to roam the forest enclosure, years of confinement in cages made them feel like the bear house is actually safer then the outside world. They need to be taught that they are actually belong to the forest and the forest is their home.
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Suria is one of our rescued subadult female bear. On April 23, we let them out to the forest enclosure for the first time. Wai Pak, our project manager, a.k.a, uncle bear, was site by site with Suria to gave her all the courage she needed to venture out to her new forest enclosure that we all work so hard to give them.     
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Step by step, Wai Pak lured Suria out of her den with honey. Wai Pak has gained Suria's trust since Suria was rescued by BSBCC more than a year ago.
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The bonding and trust between Suria and Wai Pak is the first step for a successful reintroduction.
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Dances with Suria the sun bear.
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Suria first touched and felt the soil.
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Suria checked out and shown interest on a tree in her enclosure.
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Suria took her first climb up on small tree in the enclosure.
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Suria took a break after hours of excitement and exercise. The first day out for her mean a whole world for her.
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At the end of the day, Suria head back to her den.
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Exhausted but happy, the joy of Wai Pak at the end the day was hard to express by any human language!
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Three bears moved, 9 to go

7/4/2010

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Today marked history of BSBCC as we are starting to move the 12 bears in the old bear house to the state of the art new bear house 1. Our plan today is to move Om, Ah Chong and Suria in the morning but the move have to delay because we have found a problem with the locking device of the bear den’s door  in the new bear den during our final checking an hour before the move. Luckily, the issue has been solved immediately and everything went according to plan.
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This is the last day for Jelita and Cerah to stay in their old bear house.
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We start the entire procedure with Om, one of our three males bear in the centre. Om is a 5 year old bears who was confiscated by the Wildlife Department from private owner some 5 years ago. I have the privilege to witness his growth over the past 5 years and have been taking good care of him over the past 5 years.
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We sedated the bears for the moving. We took this opportunity to perform a complete physical check on the bears. Om’s teeth showing a healthy adult tooth growth. The canines of sun bears are particular huge. In fact, their teeth is the biggest proportionally among all other species of bears.
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The sun bear medical team. From left to right: Veterinarian Dr Cecelia Boklin from Sabah Wildlife Department who station at Sepilok Orangutan Rehabilitation Centre and BSBCC, me, Annemarie from Animal Asia Foundation, and Maria from Oakland Zoo.
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Dr. Cecilia and senior Ranger Elis taking blood from Om.
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Om recovered very well after the sedation. It was very interesting to see how he carefully checked his new home by sniffing every single inch of his cage and genteelly tapped with his claws, just like aye-aye use their finger tapping on tree trunk to pin point the location of the beetle larvae.
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The next bear we moved was Suria. A bit more than one year old, she is the youngest female bear in our centre, weighing 25 kg.
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She had a wound on her body and Dr. Cecilia is treating her.
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Volunteers Audrey and Howard come from Australia to help us documenting the entire process with video camera and still photo shots.
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Suria’s front paw.
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Suria’s hind paw. Is their feet human like or what??
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Ah Chong is the last bear we moved today. He top the scale at 65 kg, the fattest bear in our centre and the biggest I have ever seen for the Bornean subspecies. He is just huge!
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At the end of the day, Om manage to settle down in his new basket.
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Like everyone who work really hard today, Om too was tired and sleep in his basket like a baby!
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Suria also recovering well from her sedation and exploring her new home after she recovered from her sedation.
It has been a very good day. 3 moved, 9 to go!
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Great work everyone!

29/10/2009

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Text & Photo by Jocelyn Stokes
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Yesterday, while playful Suria was chewing on a stick or two, the BSBCC crew was busy re-cementing the floor of the larger enclosure. Although, she doesn't know it yet, Suria will soon be moved back into the large activity area where she will have quadruple the space to roam and play.  The problem began when the bears started to dig up the cement flooring, which injured the padding on their paws. Suria had to be quarantined briefly to prevent further injury while the floor was repaired.  Now, we are all excited to see her moved back in!

Further excitement is also spreading with the steady progress of the new bear centre roof.  The construction workers have been diligently preparing for this task and are now busy realizing the completion of the new ceiling.  Also being laid, currently, are the first bricks of the new centre.  Great work everyone!

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Moved into New Home!

18/4/2009

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Text by Ng Wai Pak

​31st March was a special day in BSBCC. Everybody was cheered up as we were waiting for this moment for months. That’s because we were going to moved three bears into the new bear cages! Please read 
http://www.bsbcc.org.my/bear-talk-blog/new-bear-cages-finally-done

Susie was the first bear who moved into the new cage. Elis, SOURC ranger, sedated Susie and then she has a medical checked by Dr Cecilia. According to Dr., Susie health was much better compare to the first day Susie arrive at BSBCC last August. Anybody can tell the different on its fur and coating, it’s more shining now!  
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Due to the shortage of bear cage, she was put into a 122 x 92 x 106cm cage for the last few months. However, now she can have a more spacious cage to stay and hang around! Nevertheless, she can go out to the exercise enclosure that full with dried leaves and branches!
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