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Anti-smuggle police save 6 bears on border

By Li Yingqing and Guo Anfei (chinadaily.com.cn)
Updated: 2009-05-15 18:56

KUNMING -- Six little bears moved into the Yunnan Wildlife asylum Center in Kunming, Yunnan province on Thursday, after they were rescued by anti-smuggling police.

A police officer feeds a sun bear in Kunming, southwest China's Yunnan province Thursday May 14, 2009. [chinadaily.com.cn]

Yunnan forest public security bureau at Daluo town, Xishuangbanna, bordering with Myanmar, found the six bears which were to smuggle out of the border. The six bears included a sun bear, which is one the class one protected animal list with giant pandas, and five black bears, which are on the class-two protected animal list.

The sun bear, only one month old, was slightly injured.