The Bornean Sun Bear Conservation Centre (amateur footage of a fascinating place!)

Despite its alarming decline all over Southeast Asia and China, there exists only one wildlife center in the world today that provides protection for the adorable Sun bear-the world’s smallest bear.
During our visit to the Centre, we ran into the founder himself, Dr. Wong Siew Te (not filmed). In a tragically familiar story, we learned from Dr. Siew Te that deforestation is not the only threat to the survival of these cuddly bears: the risk of capture and being sold as pets also exists. Captured babies are rarely well-cared for by inexperienced owners once they get bigger, and they usually end up in cages, malnourished, and abused. The bears we met here are mostly rescued orphans who fell victim to this fate, and many have suffered permanently stunted growth. The goal of the fenced-off Conservation Centre is to release as many bears as possible back into the wild safely
We are Lan & Eric, two front-line clinicians who chose to hit "pause" on our medical careers to live out our dream of traveling all seven continents. Our videos coincide with our photo-journal, explorerswithoutborders.com/, where we have tried to record the many lessons, perspectives and inspiration we have found along the way.