Andrew Rowan, DPhil Archive

Sep 30, 2020 WellBeing International Studies Repository – Providing Access to Useful Data and Important Studies

Posted at 13:56h In Articles, Democratizing Information, Letter from the President, PAE Well-being, WellBeing News - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

In 2020, there were reportedly over 5 billion unique mobile phone users worldwide (two-thirds of the world’s total population). Of these, 2.9 billion are using smartphones. These numbers translate to the growing availability of an extraordinary global marketplace for ideas and influence. Every smartphone user...

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Aug 25, 2020 African Wildlife, Eco-Tourism & COVID

Posted at 18:28h In Articles, Global Awareness, Letter from the President, Public Awareness/Attitudes, WellBeing News - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

The UN World Tourism Agency published a report in 2015 on the importance of wildlife tourism to national economies in Africa. About half of global wildlife tourism involves a visit to an African country, resulting in 6 million tourists a year visiting Sub-Saharan Africa (about...

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Aug 23, 2020 Individual Choices and Global Well-being

Posted at 18:45h In Articles, Feel Better, People Well-being, WellBeing News - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

WellBeing International is now focusing on the ways that we as individuals can modify our behavior to improve our own health and well-being as well as reducing our impact on the world around us – positively affecting what we have called the PAE Triad (People,...

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Jul 19, 2020 Communing with Crows

Posted at 15:12h In Animals in Our World, Articles, Human-Animal Interaction, Tales of WellBeing - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

Following the recommendations of our esteemed colleague, Dr. Alan Kazdin, who has written in a previous WellBeing newsletter about the importance of being in natural settings for human mental and physical health, we bring you a tale about a relationship that has developed between one...

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Jul 19, 2020 How do Sea Turtles Find their Way?

Posted at 06:01h In Animals in Our World, Articles, Tales of WellBeing, Wild Animals in Water - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil and Andrew Rowan

Sea turtles have been shown to have the remarkable ability to find their way across thousands of kilometers of open ocean back to a specific beach where they lay their eggs or to a specific feeding ground. Early in this century, the American scientists Kenneth...

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Jun 30, 2020 Sustainable Fisheries?

Posted at 16:07h In Animals in Our World, Articles, WellBeing News, Wild Animals in Water - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

The total global catch of wild fish increased from 31 million metric tons in 1950 to a high of 130 million metric tons in 1996 before falling back to 109 million metric tons in 2010. However, from 1950 onwards, 366 of 1,519 fisheries collapsed (defined...

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Jun 30, 2020 Wildlife Crossings

Posted at 06:37h In Animals in Our World, Articles, WellBeing News, Wild Animals on Land - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

In June, the House of Representatives included dedicated funding in the INVEST in America Act (HR2) to reduce wildlife-vehicle collisions. Renee Callahan, Senior Policy Officer for our Partner, the Center for Large Landscape Conservation (CLLC), noted that wildlife-vehicle collisions cost over $8 billion a year...

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Jun 30, 2020 Cat Conflicts: Conservationists and Protectionists Remain at Odds but the Conflict Might be Ameliorating

Posted at 05:30h In Animals in Our World, Articles, Companion Animals - Cats, WellBeing News - By John Hadidian, PhD and Andrew Rowan, DPhil

An early relationship between humans and cats is supported by hard evidence from a burial on Cyprus that dates to 9500 BP. Cats were never native to that Mediterranean island, so the occurrence of a young cat within a human burial, while not evidence of...

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Jun 30, 2020 Companion Animals in a Time of COVID-19

Posted at 04:40h In Animals in Our World, Articles, Letter from the President, Population & Demographics, WellBeing News - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

As we continue to struggle with the current Covid-19 pandemic, it appears that there has been an uptick across the world in the demand for companion animals. In the early phases of the pandemic, there was some concern that our companion animals might be a...

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Jun 11, 2020 Karuna for Corona – Feeding the Homeless Dogs

Posted at 07:46h In Animals in Our World, Articles, BCI (Blue Cross of India), Companion Animals - Homeless, Tales of WellBeing - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

On March 24, the Indian government ordered a national 21-day lockdown as part of its response to the global Covid-19 pandemic. The lockdown has been extended several times and is now projected to last until June 30. This precaution has resulted in significant hardship for...

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