Kelulut bee colonies destroyed by sun bear, participants incur RM30,000 in losses


PERMAISURI: Ten participants of the Universiti Malaysia Terengganu (UMT) community stingless bee (kelulut) farming project in Kampung Pengkalan Gelap, here incurred losses of approximately RM30,000 after a sun bear destroyed 22 colonies of kelulut bees.

The project head, Prof Dr Shamsul Bahri Abdul Razak, said one of the participants discovered the incident at 8am as they were about to clean the farm, adding that the attack might have occurred between 3am and 4am.

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