Sun bear freed after two decades


MIRI: An adult sun bear locked up for over 20 years in a small steel cage is the latest rescue by an enforcement team from the Sarawak Forestry Corporation (SFC), the fourth such incident this year.

The animal, which was kept in a cage the size of a small chicken coop, was rescued at about 9pm on Friday from a farm house in Kg Rasau near Serian, some 50km from Kuching.

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