Due to MCO, only half of BSBCC's employees are available to care for 43 rescued bears and they do it with dedication.
Five football fields. That’s the size of the fenced-up forested land where 43 rescued endangered sun bears are cared for at the Bornean Sun Bear Conservation Centre in Sandakan, Sabah.
“So, these rescued bears are managed in the enclosed area of the forest under very high intensive care so that they don’t endanger the general public,” BSBCC founder and CEO Wong Siew Te toldAccording to Wong, sun bears, also known as honey bears because of their love for honey, are vulnerable to extinction due to a number of threats, namely deforestation and poaching.
They also feed on invertebrates such as insects and termites, which is a means of controlling pests, as well as wild honey or the locally known kelulut produced by stingless bees. But at BSBCC, Wong said, they might as well be content with the abundance of food laid out for them by the bear keepers. The food consists of bananas, papayas, watermelons, pumpkins, sweet potatoes, corn, carrots, rice porridge, eggs and dog food.
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