Andrew Rowan, DPhil Archive

May 30, 2020 Global Dog Populations

Posted at 09:57h In Animals in Our World, Articles, Letter from the President, Population & Demographics, WellBeing News - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

In human health management, we generally must know the size of the problem before we can manage it successfully. This is also true of the management of animals such as dogs and cats. This letter will address what we know about global dog populations on...

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May 30, 2020 Shifting Baselines: Understanding the True Extent of Wildlife Decline

Posted at 05:04h In Articles, Global Awareness, Population & Demographics, WellBeing News - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

Over the past few years, news stories describing the global wildlife decline have generally referenced the Living Planet Index (LPI), which is based on methodology developed by the World Wildlife Fund and the Zoological Society of London. The LPI indicates that wildlife populations have declined...

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Apr 30, 2020 Sustainable Development & Trophy Hunting

Posted at 07:54h In Animals in Our World, Articles, Conservation, Letter from the President, WellBeing News - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

Sustainability has become a popular term encompassing the notion that we need to promote and pursue policies that will allow future generations of humans to live and benefit from the wealth provided by the Earth. In 2015, the United Nations (UN) adopted the 2030 Agenda...

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Mar 31, 2020 The Context for the Coronavirus Pandemic

Posted at 13:31h In Animals in Our World, Articles, PAE Well-being, WellBeing News - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

At the beginning of this century, a review paper (Daszak et al, 2000) highlighted the importance of the consumption of wildlife as a major source of a series of dangerous new “emerging” pathogens. The most well-known of these is the AIDS virus that was first recognized...

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Mar 28, 2020 The State of Well-Being

Posted at 09:48h In Articles, Feel Better, Letter from the President, PAE Well-being, WellBeing News - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

In February 2019, Wellbeing News carried an article discussing ideas relating to the state of well-being of People, Animals and the Environment. This article was followed by an item on the United Nations’ World Happiness Report in Tales of WellBeing. The World Happiness Report is issued...

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Mar 13, 2020 Zakouma, Chad – A Dying to Living Story

Posted at 14:06h In Animals in Our World, Articles, Protected Areas, Tales of WellBeing - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

[caption id="attachment_7103" align="alignleft" width="500"] Elephant calf drinking in Zakouma, NP, Chad as part of the largest elephant herd in Africa. Photo by Thomas Clode[/caption] The Chadian government established the Zakouma National Park, a 3,000 Km2 area in the south-east of the country, in 1963. At the...

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Mar 13, 2020 Wildlife Rescue – The Guide

Posted at 06:24h In Animal Well-being, Animals in Our World, Articles, Tales of WellBeing - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

Most of us will have had an occasion to rescue an injured or ill wild animal, whether it be a mouse that the cat has caught, a bird that has flown into a window or something more exotic. I suspect that we then scramble to...

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Feb 27, 2020 In Search of Explanations and the Truth

Posted at 07:24h In Articles, Global Awareness, Human-Animal Interaction, WellBeing News - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

In the search to explain the world around us, there have been occasions where a particular set of observations produces a narrative that appears to provide an elegant explanation of what is happening, even though it might not be entirely accurate. One such story is...

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Feb 26, 2020 Managing Cats for Cats, Wildlife & People

Posted at 09:31h In Articles, Companion Animals - Cats, Global Awareness, Letter from the President, WellBeing News - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

In the January 2020 issue of our Tales of WellBeing, we related the story of an outdoor cat project on Key Largo, Florida, called ORCAT – Ocean Reef Cat Project. To most people the cat management project has been a big success, reducing the number of...

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Feb 26, 2020 Impact of the Coronavirus Outbreak on Wildlife

Posted at 09:20h In Animal Well-being, Global Awareness - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

Health authorities around the world are now bracing to deal with the growing threat of the latest coronavirus zoonosis. But there are already silver linings beginning to appear on this particular dark cloud. The Chinese government very recently (and very quickly) passed a new nationwide...

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