They include Asian elephants, sun bears, black jaguars, sea lions and spider monkeys.
When the sun bears down, it can be flipped over to create shade.
In February, the noon sun bears down from directly overhead, erasing any possibility of relief.
Because of its isolation, Klong Seang harbors healthy populations of sun bears, slow lorises, white-handed gibbons, flying foxes and elusive clouded leopards.
When the rainforests disappear almost all of the wildlife – including the orangutans, tigers, sun bears, bearded pigs and other endangered species – and indigenous people go.
On brittle aged paper in the family album a tiny article clipped from The New York Sun bears the unemotional headline "Another Negro to Die".
Experts warn that sun bears and Asiatic black bears, known colloquially as 'moon bears, are on a similar route to endangerment, although their plight draws less media attention.
Seen with their cubs, hunting, napping or moongazing, these bears range from the familiar polar bears and black bears to sun bears, sloth bears and moon bears.
Orangutans, clouded leopards, sun bears, gibbons, the Sumatran rhinoceros and Sumatran tiger, these are among the threatened species being driven from much of their range by the flames.
For three years the market has openly traded endangered species including sun bears and pangolins, in conditions so bad that many animals die of neglect.
Scientists who fanned out into the nearby jungles found sun bears, leopards, elephants, many types of monkeys and red pandas, an endangered auburn-colored animal that resembles a cross between a raccoon and a bear.
