Touching hearts through art to help the sun bears

Dr Wong Siew Te, the CEO and founder of the Bornean Sun Bear Conservation Centre, with one of the artworks featured in the Happy Forest, Happy Wildlife art exhibition. (BSBCC Facebook pic)

KOTA KINABALU: Gentle, adorable, docile, vulnerable and threatened – this is the thrust of the message about sun bears and their conservation that 10 local artists aimed to convey through their works at a recent exhibition.

Held at the Lai Lai Art Studio in Ampang, Selangor from May 19 to June 11, the “Happy Forest, Happy Wildlife” exhibition featured 28 pieces expressing the importance of the world's smallest bear species.