Group releases eighth rehabilitated Sun Bear back into Sabah jungles

Montom running out from the crate when the door was opened. –BSBCC

KOTA KINABALU: Montom the Sun Bear has been released back into the wild after undergoing a five-year rehabilitation, the eighth from the Bornean Sun Bear Conservation Centre (BSBCC).

The operation to release six-year-old Montom was carried out jointly by Sabah Wildlife Department, BSBCC and Forest Solutions Malaysia in July, according to a joint statement by the group.