Borneo’s Tabin Wildlife Resort Promotes Sun Bear Survival

November 3, 2009 on 5:46 pm | In Adventure Travel, Asia, Beachbooker, Borneo, Cabinweb, Malaysia, Outdoors | Comments Off


Free Shipping On Paddling Gear & Kayaks!The Tabin Wildlife Resort in Lahad Datu, Sabah, on the island of Borneo, invites its guests to make their holidays on the resort a more meaningful one through its latest campaign, “A Beary Wonderful World,” which promotes Sun Bear conservation efforts.

The Tabin Wildlife Resort will donate RM 100 ($32) to the Bornean Sun Bear Conservation Center for each purchase of a three-day/two-night Tabin tour package, for visits from October through December 2009.

Additionally, each guest will get a Sun Bear plush toy in return for the good deed.

Borneo Island is home to the world’s smallest bear species, the Malayan Sun Bear (Helarctos malayanus).

With forest degradation and development, living space available for the Sun Bear is fast reducing. Sun Bear populations are also threatened by illegal hunting and poaching for food and medicines, to prevent damage to crops and villages, and to capture small cubs for the pet trade.

The protected forest of the Tabin Wildlife Reserve is one of the places where the Sun Bear can find refuge and hopefully thrive.

Footprints of this endangered animal have been seen around the Lipad Mud Volcano, not far from Tabin Wildlife Resort.

The objectives of the Bornean Sun Bear Conservation Center, located at Sepilok near Sandakan, are to provide improved facilities for the bears, promote public awareness, education, and research, and wherever possible, to rehabilitate bears back into the wild.

The three-day/two-night Tabin package is priced at RM 1,160 ($378) per person, with a minimum two bookings required.

The package includes accommodation at one of the timber lodges on the Tabin Wildlife Resort, with visits to the Lipad Mud Volcano, which provides a mineral salt lick for wildlife, treks to the Lipad waterfall, and a night “safari” to look out for nocturnal wildlife and birds.

For more information, visit www.tourismmalaysiausa.com

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