4/21/11

Emma loves sun bears! – Bornean Sun Bear Conservation Centre

Emma loves sun bears! – Bornean Sun Bear Conservation Centre



Remember two weeks ago British actress Emma Thompson met me for the first time and championed the “most beautiful little creature” in Kota Kinabalu? After the last meeting, Emma together with her husband Greg Wise and daughter Gaia have been visited almost all ecotourism hot spots in Sabah-Danum Valley, Tabin Wildlife Reserve, Kinabatangan River, Sipadan, etc. Yesterday was their last stop in Sabah, visiting the sun bears at Bornean Sun Bear Conservation Centre.


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The family stayed at the centre all day long to learn everything and anything about this little known bears. This was the first time Emma and her family encountered with the Bornean sun bears and realized how little they were compared to the giant Alaskan brown bears! Their up-close-and personal experience with the bears, and learned all about the sun bears from me, was most memorable. Gaia especially, fell in love with the sun bears and promised to come back in 7 years when she is old enough to become a volunteer at the age of 18! Beside our long discussions on the plights of sun bears and casual conversation, the family also watched the newly produced documentary “Big Dream Little Bears” -the story about the new life of our rescue sun bears in BSBCC filmed a year ago.


Emma Thompson and her family were extremely sincere and humble. She is so kind to autograph several T-shirts and bags with her personal message to the world- save the sun bears! These t-shirts and bags were to be auctioned at fund raising events for BSBCC at facebook on June 11-12, and another fund raising event in Sandakan on July. Thank you Emma!


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The sun bears for sure have a new friend since yesterday! Besides gaining additional world famous friend, the bears also gain a spokeswoman who would speak on their behalf. Even better, at the end of the day, Emma became the patron for both BSBCC and the UK Charity Sun Bear Conservation Trust. The connection between Emma Thompson and the sun bears has established.


Emma will be back for the sun bears!


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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hi Mr. Wong, it's me Mae. I've been looking for sunbears t-shirts months ago but I only found it on zazzle.com but I'm not really into it. I saw the t-shirts that Emma Thompson signed but I thought it's not for sale until I saw Matthias Gelber wore it on his Facebook profile picture. So I was thinking if and how I could get it?

Thanks!

Anonymous said...

Hi Mr. Wong, it's me Mae. I've been looking for sunbears t-shirts months ago but I only found it on zazzle.com but I'm not really into it. I saw the t-shirts that Emma Thompson signed but I thought it's not for sale until I saw Matthias Gelber wore it on his Facebook profile picture. So I was thinking if and how I could get it?

Thanks!