Bornean Sun Bear Conservation

Category: conservation, sanctuary | Date: Oct 19 2008 | By: Siew Te Wong

It has been two weeks after I attended the WCN Wildlife Expo and the Garden Party on the first week of October. I would like to thank WCN, especially Charles Knowles and his staff, for doing a wonderful job for conservation and giving me the opportunity to talk to the public and the generous donors who attend the events on the plights of the sun bear.

The weeklong event started with 3 days of workshop covering various topics on the contemporary wildlife conservation issues and management, follow by a day long of WCN Wildlife Expo where the conservationist presented their marvelous conservation works, and then rapped up with another day long garden party where conservationists met with generous donors in person to talk about their works and catching up with life. I have learn a lot from the various topics during the workshop, and also meeting many great conservationists and learned about their great works to conserve endangered wildlife. It was truly an eye opening event for me to meet up with conservation heroes like Rodney Jackson, Iain Douglas-Hamilton, Laurie Markers, Jim Sanderson, Dale Miguelle, and many others, who have spend almost their entire life and career on saving the magnificent endangered species that they love so much. It is here I learned that because of the great conservation works from these people, many wildlife and wild land are protected and survived.

This event inspired me on the conservation works these conservationists have done and still continue doing. Their persistence, enthusiasm, believes, plus a lot of hard works made them success on saving the species that they are working with. The very common questions I always encounter are what are sun bears? What did they look like? People simply do not know any thing about sun bear. Period.

This year is 2008. For the past several decades, sun bears being hunted down, and their habitat being cleared as human population expends.

This year is 2008. The poaching of sun bears and forest clearing still on going in Southeast Asia where sun bears are found.

The year is 2008. There are still so many people do not know this bear exist or know anything about this bear species.

This year is 2008. Sun bears remain the least known bears and being forgotten.

Sun bear are so far behind. We have a lot of thing to do to help this bears. We need helps to help sun bears!

For all of you who has help us and the sun bears, I thank you all over and over again.

The Bornean Sun Bear Conservation Table at the expo with Chris Morgan, the producer and feature charactor of Beartrek, who help me on the table that day. Thanks Chris!