Photo: A female Sun Bear, with a small cub, killed simply for being found on an oil palm plantation.Credit: New Straits Times
"A small Sun Bear cub, with a rather rotund body and bright, pleading eyes, is trussed up like a chicken."
Just after a picture was taken, the cub mentioned above was taken into a kitchen and slaughtered as it screamed. Siew Te Wong describes this as a similar fate for most bears who come into contact with men in Borneo. Bornean Sun Bears are under threats from all sides. They are poached for their bile or paws, killed as pests, taken for the pet trade, and threatened by the loss of their homes.
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