This is my page about the sunbears at Matang Wildlife Centre. Click below for the latest updates:
- February 2008 - Sunbear Release
- February 2008 - Sunbears see the sun (videos)
Sunbears
At Matang Wildlife Centre there is a quarantine area which houses any new animals bought into the centre, 4 sunbears in quarantine have been given an outside enclosure built by local labourers as the first step to a bear rehabilitation programme supported by Sarawak Forestry. The plan is that these bears will start to learn how to live more naturally and with the help of volunteers and staff will be provided with enrichment based on natural foraging and also a diet similar to that they would find for themselves in the forest, I am very pleased to be involved in this project and the plan is for this to start early January when I return. This will be the first sunbear rehabilitation programme in the world.
The new half acre enclosure has been adapted to include night dens where the bears will sleep at night as, contrary to popular belief, they are actually not nocturnal. During the day the bears will have access to the outdoor enclosure that has been designed by world class experts and will help them to learn natural behaviors and interact with the environment, assisting with their future rehabilitation into the wild.
Here are some photos of thier new enclosure and night dens 
And now they’re more than happy in thier new enclosure
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Having donated money for bears through the WWLF having seen bears in pits in Denmark, it is wonderful to see these unusual and different animals, being protected here.