Andrew Rowan, DPhil Archive

Dec 25, 2019 WellBeing International 2019

Posted at 09:25h In Articles, Education - Humane, Global Awareness, Letter from the President, WellBeing News - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

This will be our last newsletter of 2019 and WBI would like to take this opportunity to thank you for following our activities through the first full year of our existence. This letter will provide a summary of our activities for 2019 and serve as...

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Oct 29, 2019 The Third International Humane Dog Population Management Conference

Posted at 10:23h In Animals in Our World, Articles, Companion Animals - Dogs, HIS (Help in Suffering), WellBeing News - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

To date there have been three international dog population management conferences. The first was organized by Dr. Giovanna Massei in York (UK, 2012). The second and third have been organized by ICAM (the International Companion Animal Management Coalition) in Istanbul (Turkey, 2015) and most recently...

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Oct 29, 2019 Global Animal Protection

Posted at 10:06h In Animal Well-being, Animals in Our World, Articles, Letter from the President, WellBeing News - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

September and October are traditionally heavy conference months across the world and that is true in the animal protection space as well. In the past seven weeks, WellBeing International has attended and spoken at five conferences in Addis Ababa, Cape Town, Mombasa, Sydney and Dalian...

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Oct 29, 2019 Cape Town Animal Conference, South Africa

Posted at 07:15h In Animal Well-being, Animals in Our World, WellBeing News - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

The second Cape Animal Conference in September was held at the University of Cape Town (UCT) courtesy of a student group, We Are Animals, that allowed the organizers to make use of UCT lecture facilities. The conference “theme” involved an examination of how laws and...

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Oct 29, 2019 Humane Education

Posted at 07:03h In Articles, Education - Humane, Global Awareness, WellBeing News - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

There is widespread support for humane and environmental education as a means of improving the treatment of animals. However, there are no academic reports that conclude that humane education leads to significant improvement in the treatment of animals. The few studies that attempt to evaluate...

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Oct 04, 2019 “Moo and Me” by Marina Evans, illustrated by Judy Mare

Posted at 09:35h In Animals in Our World, Book Review, Human-Animal Interaction - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

In an earlier issue of Tales of WellBeing, we discussed the role of animal characters in children’s literature. Most of the characters are fictional but Moo and Me tells the true story of the friendship that developed and strengthened between a young girl (Marina Evans)...

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Sep 13, 2019 Third Africa Animal Welfare Conference

Posted at 10:56h In Animals in Our World, Articles, Equid - Health, Letter from the President, WellBeing News - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

The Third African Animal Welfare Conference took place in Addis Ababa at the beginning of September (the first two were held in Kenya in 2017 and 2018). There were over 200 attendees drawn from all regions of Africa and from eight non-African countries. As in...

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Sep 13, 2019 Attitudes to Wildlife

Posted at 07:33h In Articles, Environment Well-being, Global Awareness, WellBeing News - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

Dr. Stephen Kellert of the Yale School of Forestry performed some of the first large scale assessments of American attitudes to wildlife in the 1970s. He generated a set of attitudes/values and estimated the proportion of Americans strongly oriented toward a particular value. For example...

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Aug 18, 2019 CITES and Wildlife Protection

Posted at 09:17h In Animals in Our World, Articles, Letter from the President, PAE Well-being, WellBeing News - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

This month, delegates from around the world will gather in Geneva to attend the 18th Conference of Parties (COP) of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES). The COP is the triennial CITES meeting attended by representatives of...

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Jul 31, 2019 Developing Partnerships to End Dog and Cat “Homelessness”

Posted at 11:07h In Animals in Our World, Articles, Companion Animals - Dogs, WellBeing News - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

The pet care (food, treats and veterinary care) market and dog and cat “homelessness” are related. It is in everyone’s interest (animal NGOs, pet care companies and other stakeholders) to collaborate and work together to address (and end?) pet homelessness. Pet care companies have financial...

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