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“I said, ‘What are sun bears?’ I knew nothing about them. It was a big learning lesson from day one.” Arrangements were made and in 1997 the three bears – Mr Hobbs, Victoria and Lucille – were unveiled to huge fanfare at Taronga. The worldwide headlines catapulted the tiny Free The Bears charity from obscurity into the big time, and within a week Dr Hutton was overwhelmed with mail. Advertisement “One day we had a knock on the front door from a police lady who...