FREE THE BEARS
Book ID/图书代码： 03540013B60127
English Summary/英文概要： The amazing true story of one woman who gave up everything to help save the world’s bears.
In 1993, watching a current affairs TV program, Perth grandmother Mary Hutton saw a segment that would change her life - and the lives of hundreds of others. The segment contained horrifying footage of Asiatic Black bears held in coffin sized cages unable to move or turn with dirty catheters inserted directly into their gall bladder. Mary learned that thousands of bears were being held in these horrifying conditions throughout Asia, regularly milked for their bile to feed the demand for bear bile to be used in traditional medicine. Gall bladders and bile have been used in traditional Asian medicine for centuries, however the commercial farming of bears began recently in Korea during the 1980’s so that the bears could be milked for their bile repeatedly throughout their lives.
The next day, Mary drew up a petition and stood at the entrance of the local shopping mall collecting signatures to help ’Free the Bears’. Within months, she had thousands of signatures, a regular group of like-minded supporters which became a committee, and plans to build on the momentum that had gathered into a force to help bears throughout the world. The Free the Bears Fund was born.
* A compelling behind-the-scenes story that shows how one woman can indeed change the world
* Mary will donate a portion of proceeds from the book to Free the Bears
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 有关于一名女性放弃一切，致力于帮助拯救世界上的黑熊们的动人真实故事。
1993年，玛丽•哈顿在看电视时事播报时看到了一个改变她，以及成千上万个像她一样的人一生的片段。这一片断包含了一组骇人的连续镜头：亚洲黑熊被关在难以动弹的棺材般大小的笼子里，而一根根脏导管则被硬生生的插入它们的胆囊之中。玛丽意识到在亚洲，数以千万只黑熊正经历着同样的可怕对待，它们长期被人类抽取胆汁，以满足其数个世纪以来将熊胆应用于传统医药的需求。自古以来，传统亚洲医药一直将熊的苦胆和胆汁作为药材，然而20世纪80年代后，韩国开始出现了相关的商业化农场，他们囚禁黑熊并反复抽取其胆汁以贩卖。
就在看到了这一片断后的第二天，玛丽便起草了一份请愿书，并于当地一家大型购物中心的门前收集支持者的签名，以帮助拯救黑熊。数月内，她收集到了数千个支持者的签名，与一群志同道合的志愿者成立了一个相关小组，后演变为一个救助委员会，他们计划借此契机形成一股强大的力量以帮助全世界范围内的黑熊们。此后，拯救黑熊基金会成立。
一个动人的幕后故事，展现了一名女性改变世界的傲人风采。
玛丽将把本书的一部分收益捐赠给拯救黑熊基金会。(DC)
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About the Author/作者介绍： 玛丽•哈顿，澳大利亚拯救黑熊基金会创立人之一，动物保护积极分子。至今，哈顿已五次入围Senior Australian年度奖评选。Mary Hutton is the Australian founder of the Free the Bears Fund, and an animal activist. Hutton has been a finalist for the Senior Australian of the Year Award five times.
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