The Chimps of Fauna Sanctuary
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In 1997 Gloria Grow started a sanctuary for chimps retired from biomedical research on her farm outside Montreal. For the indomitable Gloria, caring for thirteen great apes is like presiding over a maximum security prison, a Zen sanctuary and an old folksâ#128;#153; home all rolled into one. But she
… More »In 1997 Gloria Grow started a sanctuary for chimps retired from biomedical research on her farm outside Montreal. For the indomitable Gloria, caring for thirteen great apes is like presiding over a maximum security prison, a Zen sanctuary and an old folksâ#128;#153; home all rolled into one. But she is first and foremost creating a refuge for her troubled charges -- a place where they can recover and begin to trust humans again. Hoping to win some of this trust, journalist Andrew Westoll spent months at Fauna Sanctuary as a volunteer, and in this book he vividly recounts his time in the chimp house and the histories of its residents. He arrives with dreams of striking up an immediate friendship with the legendary Tom, the wise face of The Great Ape Protection Act, but Tom seems all too content to ignore him. Gradually, though, old man Tommie and the rest of the â#128;#156;troopâ#128;#157; begin to warm towards Westoll as he learns the routines of life at the farm and realizes just how far the chimps have come. Brimming with empathy and winning stories of Gloria and her charges, The Chimps of Fauna Sanctuary is an absorbing, big-hearted book that grapples with questions of just what we owe to the animals who are our nearest genetic relations.
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Add a CommentThey should make this into a movie to reach a wider audience to incite the politicians to close down these labs. And take the profit to retire the chimps.
The previous comments says it all.....I am so happy I found and read this book!
I loved this book. Andrew Westoll tells a compassionate and honest story about the chimps of Fauna Sanctuary, and the life they endured in research before they were sent to Quebec. He certainly desrved the Charles Taylor Prize.
I read this book after I finished "Project Nim". Andrew Westoll is a great storyteller. We have done too much for Chipms. Gloria is doing a fantastic job. But like she said "We did not give them freedom. What we did is only not to hurt them anymore."
Finally a book that sustains my interest! (The first one in the last 6 months) Andrew Westoll is an amzing storyteller. No wonder he won the Charles Taylor Prize.
What a horrible species we humans are but luckily, not all of us! And thankfully, not Gloria from the Fauna Santuary. What a wonderful place that exists here in Canada. A must read!!!
A fascinating book, well researched and beautifully written, but also heart breaking and appalling. It exposes how cruelly we treat such wonderful creatures and how dedicated people at the sanctuary coax them back from the dark places they had been inhabiting. Unbelievable that while most countries have banned experiments on chimps the USA still condones the practice. It taught me a lot about resilience and the capacity to trust after traumatic times.
"What do you get when you take a baby away from its mother a few hours after birth and raise it in isolation, adding physical abuse that stretches on forever, all in the name of biomedical research? The bad news is that, whether the baby is human or chimpanzee or probably anything else, the damage is lasting. The hurt done can never be fully healed. The good news is that some of us are trying. We are working with damaged human children and adults as well as damaged individuals of other species. One of us (let's try to look at this collectively, since we are all complicit in the damage) is doing it right this minute on a farm in Quebec." Linda Spalding Globe & Mail May 27 2011