http://sunbears.wildlifedirect.org Hope at last for Borneo's Sun Bears Mon, 04 Aug 2008 02:16:21 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en   I am still here. Here mean still on the surface of the Earth! Is just that I am away from Sabah for the past two weeks or so. Here is an update for what’s going on:   After the operation to remove the lipoma in me late last month, I recovered really ... http://sunbears.wildlifedirect.org/2008/08/03/i-am-still-here/ It seems that the blog was silent for some times. Thus, I was told to write some bears’ stories in Sepilok while Wong is away for a while at the moment. Of course I am more than willing to share my experiences that I learnt from the bears with our ... http://sunbears.wildlifedirect.org/2008/08/03/story-of-the-sun-bear-keeper/ I survive! Sorry for the long silence. It was a very very hectic times (well, seem hectic all the time but last week was even more so) over the past two weeks as I have many things to cover in my agenda. This is my agenda look like which ... http://sunbears.wildlifedirect.org/2008/07/05/sorry-for-the-long-silence/   If these baby bears can past the crucial infant stage where extensive cares was needed, they could pretty much make it to adulthood without any problem. However, more suffering once they grew bigger and stronger. By a year old, they could reached 15 kg, and were no longer safe pets ... http://sunbears.wildlifedirect.org/2008/06/20/captive-sun-bear-series-iii-life-in-hell/ Because they are small and cute, sun bear owner often keep them in a small pet cage for puppies or birds. This is the beginning of life in hell. I once saw a bear cub in a crocodile farm in Sarawak. From a distant he looked like a puppy because she ... http://sunbears.wildlifedirect.org/2008/06/14/captive-sun-bear-series-ii-life-at-young-in-captivity-the-suffering-begin/ Sorry for the long silent. Life in the field is surly hectic with challenges but too few people to help up. To get the momentum of this blog start again, I reposting a series of stories about captive sun bears from my original blog ==================================================== Its all started here: sun bear cubs are ... http://sunbears.wildlifedirect.org/2008/06/09/captive-sun-bears-series-i-because-they-are-cute/ A conservation story wrapped in an adventure BEARTREK is a feature length documentary that follows renowned bear biologist and naturalist Chris Morgan on a global crusade to understand and conserve the rarest bears on Earth. Join Chris on an epic motorcycle adventure across four continents to the wildest places on Earth -uncover ... http://sunbears.wildlifedirect.org/2008/05/18/beartrek-the-movie/ Sun bears are the least know bears and a forgotten bears species as I always call them. Certainly, it is not surprise that not many people know who I am and thus a proper introduction is needed for the readers of this blog to get to know me better as ... http://sunbears.wildlifedirect.org/2008/05/13/about-me/ It all begun way back in 1994 when I was given a task to study wild sun bears in Malaysia, which started in 1998 after few years of preparation. Since then, my interest toward sun bears, both wild and in captivity, grew exponentially as I saw many sun bears held ... http://sunbears.wildlifedirect.org/2008/05/07/bsbcc-%e2%80%93-how-did-it-all-begin/ Time is running out for the world’s smallest bear, the little known Malayan Sun Bear (Helarctos malayanus). Originally widespread through southeast Asia, Borneo is now one of the few remaining strongholds of this charismatic jungle-dependent mammal. But its home is fast diminishing; habitat loss and degradation is pushing this bear to ... http://sunbears.wildlifedirect.org/2008/05/02/hope-at-last-for-borneo%e2%80%99s-sun-bears/