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Moved into New Home!

Category: BSBCC, captivity, sanctuary | Date: Apr 16 2009 | By: Siew Te Wong

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://sunbears.wildlifedirect.org/2009/03/24/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!  

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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Susie was kept in this small cage for several months while waiting the new bear cage to be finished. Susie also has a new neighbor, Kuamut. She was moved into the cage beside Susie. We hope that Kuamut will get used to her new home and neighbor very soon. Of course, she also can explore the exercise enclosure just like others. If you are our loyal reader, you will remember Kuamut was a pet before with two heavy chains on her neck. Please read story about Kuamut at http://sunbears.wildlifedirect.org/2009/02/18/kuamut-our-latest-rescued-sun-bear/.

The last bear we moved was Suria, the youngest in the centre. She was put into the cage beside Kuamut. For sure, Suria likes her new home very much. Suria was so keen on her cage and started to explore at every corner once she was recovered from the sedation. She even started to climb for the first time! However, we found out that her arm muscle was not strong enough, and need to depend on her teeth to grab on the bars. We are still optimist that Suria can build up her muscle and climbing skills very soon!susie2.JPG

Susie was just recovered from the sedation in her new cage.

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Susie is an elegant and healthy bear here.

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Kuamut, is neighboring with Susie and Suria. We hope she can get used to the new environment very soon.

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Suria was so excited in her new cage, and she even did not need time to get used to the new environment after sedation. She just wants to play and have fun!

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After several hours climbing, breaking log and branches, Suria was exhausted and slept peacefully in her new sleeping basket for the first time. I can’t describe how happy when I saw these three bears were released into their new and more spacious cages. However, I still have to pray harder and hope that BSBCC new bear house can be started to build soon. That is because I know more bears are still keep in bad condition, in small and dirty cages without proper care of the their “owners”. I also hope the forest will stay healthy so that the sun bears will never lose their natural home.

By Wai Pak Ng

2 Responses to “Moved into New Home!”

Siew Te Wong, on 16 Apr 2009

This is the temporary new home for these bears for the next several months until we finished our new bear house and forest enclosure at the end of the year (Please read http://sunbears.wildlifedirect.org/2008/11/28/the-next-step-phase-i-of-bsbcc/). These new home for sure is much better than the small cages that they use to kept in by their human owners before they are rescued and the temporary cages while they are with us. I would like to thank Sabah Wildlife Department and many other generous donors for the kind support to make everything happening until this point. However, this is not the ending point where these bears will spend their life behind bars. They belong to the wild, the real tropical rainforest of Borneo. BSBCC is one step forward to help them back to the wild. Please continue to support us so that we will not fail these beautiful creatures that we call sun bears!

Julie Trump - SBCT, on 17 Apr 2009

How wonderful to see the girls in their new enclosure -if they are this pleased with temporary one, guess how they will be when the new bear house and forest enclosure is ready. Can’t believe how little Suria has grown since saw her last August - can’t wait to see her and all the other bears again in September.

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