Thank you to our last APE Malaysia volunteer of the year - Mark Ereira-Guyer

Ending the year with the best company 🐻😊

Thank you to our last APE Malaysia volunteer of the year - Mark Ereira-Guyer! Mark has been a great help to our team during his time here. Also, a huge thank you for adopting our sweet girl Simone!

Mark has a creative mind and has made watermelon puzzle feeders as enrichment for some of our bears here. His creativity also shows through the poems he has written about his time here.

Thank you again to Mark and all our volunteers and interns this year. However little or large, we truly appreciate all the help we can get.

Love, Barks and Big Bear Hugs❤🐻

We are proud partners of the 2023 Roots & Shoots Malaysia Award (RASMA)

We are proud partners of the 2023 Roots & Shoots Malaysia Award (RASMA)!

The collective efforts of the volunteers and partners over the past 4 months have contributed 7441.5 volunteer hours, culminating in 85 graduates. What an outstanding achievement! Congratulations to all participants.

Our RASMA volunteers helped our team in bear husbandry, maintenance, enrichment making, and many more while they were volunteering at BSBCC. We are truly grateful to all our volunteers for contributing their time and effort to help conserve our smallest bear species - Sun Bears!

All photo credits to: Roots & Shoots Malaysia

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SK Binsulung visit (25th Nov 2023)

Thank you SK Binsulung for visiting us today, a total of 24 students, accompanied by their teachers. We hope they are having a good time in gaining new knowledge about the Sun Bear, and helping spread awareness to their friends and family.

BSBCC welcomes group visits to the Centre to encourage awareness about Sun Bears both locally and internationally.

Please send your email to info.bsbcc@gmail.com for inquiries and further information.

Kolej Vokasional Keningau Visit

Thank you, Kolej Vokasional Keningau, for visiting us today! It's such a long journey for this group of students and teachers just to learn more about wildlife and their habitat. We hope you guys had a great time here and gained some new knowledge about sun bears. Together, we spread the word to save the smallest species of bear in the world! See you guys again! 

A Bright Future for Betung!

Text, photos and videos by Jacquelyn Jill Jepiuh

Betung was rescued by Sabah Wildlife Department on the 21st August 2020. Like many of our rescued cubs, she had a similar story whereby a villager claimed to have found her walking alone in the forest and decided to hand raise her since April 2020. Sadly, she was not given proper care which resulted in chronic malnutrition causing her to have stunted growth. She estimated to be 6 months old but only weighed a mere 1.4kg. Whereas, a normal bear cub would easily weigh 10kgs at that age.
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(More on Betung’s origins can be found on our Bear Talk Blog: https://www.bsbcc.org.my/bear-talk-blog/meet-betung)