According to sun bear conservationist Dr Wong Siew Te, the sun bear found in the condominium is a cub barely a few months old. "It is extremely irresponsible and illegal (to keep a sun bear as a pet) because behind the bear cub is a mother bear killed by poachers," he said. He said in the exotic pet trade, the poachers would have killed the mother bear and sold the bear cub to a middleman. "This incident shows how bad the exotic pet keeping trade is in the country, especially west Malaysia," he said. He said many exotic animals like slow loris, gibbons, and sun bears continued to be sold illegally online, and this incident highlights the seriousness of the exotic pet trade.

Source: The Star June 07, 2019 08:37 UTC