Jasper's Story by Jill Robinson

Jasper's Story by Jill Robinson

For years Jasper, a moon bear, lived a miserable existence, held captive in a cage by bear farmers in rural China. The farmers extracted the bile from Jasper's body and sold it to be used in traditional medicines. It's a horrific practice and conducted on thousands of moon bears each year. But now Jasper has the chance to be free and live a life away from pain and torture. In 2000, Animals Asia, an animal welfare organization, rescued Jasper and other captive moon bears, taking them to its Moon Bear Rescue Centre. Here veterinarians attended to the bears' wounds, hoping to give them some chance of a peaceful existence in the animal sanctuary. But after so many years of abuse Jasper's wounds, both physical and mental, are extensive. Can Jasper mend his body and mind and finally enjoy the life he was meant to live?

Marc Bekoff is a member of the Jane Goodall Institute's Ethics Committee and a former professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He is also an ambassador for Jane Goodall's Roots & Shoots program and a member of the Jane Goodall Institute's Ethics Committee. In the year 2000, he and Goodall co-founded Ethologists for Ethical Treatment of Animals: Citizens for Responsible Animal Behavior Research. He is the author of several books, including Rewilding Our Hearts: Creating Pathways of Compassion and Coexistence, Why Dogs Hump and Bees Get Depressed: The Amazing Science of Animal Intelligence, Feelings, Friendship, and Conservation, the award-winning children's book Jasper's Story: Protecting Moon Bears (with Jill Robinson), and The Ten Trusts: What We Must Do to Care for the Animals We Love, which he co-authored with Jill Robinson He currently resides in Boulder, Colorado.

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ISBN 13	9781585367986
ISBN 10	1585367982
Title	Jasper's Story
Author	Jill Robinson
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Sleeping Bear Press
Year published	2013-03-01
Number of pages	40
Prizes	Short-listed for Alabama Camellia Award (Grades 4-5) 2014
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.