Andrew Rowan, DPhil Archive

Apr 28, 2019 Role of Zoos & Aquaria in the 21st Century

Posted at 10:13h In Animals in Our World, Articles, Letter from the President, WellBeing News, Wild Animals in Captivity - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

In 1995, I was a coauthor with Bob Hoage (then a Public Affairs Officer for the National Zoo in Washington) on the changing animal protection movement and on the evolution and role of zoos and aquaria. Bob contributed the section on zoo evolution and he...

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Apr 15, 2019 “The Last Elephants” by Don Pinnock & Colin Bell

Posted at 10:05h In Animals in Our World, Book Review, Wild Animals on Land - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

The human population of Africa is projected to climb from a little more than 1.29 billion in 2018 to over 2.5 billion in 2050. Unlike the rest of the world, where the population has leveled off or is even decreasing, Africa’s population is projected to...

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Mar 31, 2019 Roads, Transport Corridors, Infrastructure and Wildlife

Posted at 12:59h In Articles, Connectivity, Global Awareness, WellBeing News - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

From 19-22 March of this year, several hundred conservation biologists, activists, economists, lawyers and political scientists convened in the Sultan Nazrin Shah Centre in Worcester College, Oxford to discuss global-scale challenges to wildlife and how the assembled cornucopia of disciplines could help to address and...

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Mar 30, 2019 Wildlife Declines and Mammalian Biomass

Posted at 11:18h In Animals in Our World, Articles, Letter from the President, WellBeing News, Wild Animals on Land - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

In the last few months, a number of scientific papers have appeared that report declines—including some dramatic declines—in the number of wild animals sharing our planet. Most people familiar with this issue know about the finding that only 4 percent of mammalian terrestrial biomass consists...

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Mar 15, 2019 International Day of Happiness

Posted at 07:33h In Feel Better, People Well-being, Tales of WellBeing - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

Wednesday, March 20, 2019, features the sixth annual celebration of the United Nation’s International Day of Happiness. The 2019 World Happiness Report will be published on that day. In the 2018 report, Finland, Norway, Denmark, Iceland, and Switzerland topped the rankings and all scored well...

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Feb 28, 2019 Well-Being for People, Animals and Environment

Posted at 11:12h In Articles, Feel Better, Letter from the President, People Well-being, WellBeing News - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

WellBeing International’s vision is focused on promoting the well-being of People, Animals, and the Environment (PAE Triad) and achieving optimal outcomes for all.  The challenges involved in developing an appropriate measure of well-being for all three elements in the PAE Triad cannot be overstated and our goal to...

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Feb 28, 2019 Human-Baboon Conflict Mitigation

Posted at 06:50h In Animals in Our World, Articles, GFAS (Greyton Farm Animal Sanctuary), Human-Animal Interaction, WellBeing News - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

The chacma baboon (Papio ursinus) is one of the largest of all monkeys and is a relatively common sight in the Cape Province in South Africa. In fact, the 500 or so baboons living on the mountain slopes of the Cape Peninsula (Cape Town, South...

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Feb 27, 2019 Plastics In The Ocean

Posted at 12:31h In Articles, Environment Well-being, Global Awareness, WellBeing News - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

As the global production of plastic items explodes, plastic debris and waste are accumulating across the planet’s oceans. A 20-fold increase in plastic production occurred between 1964 and 2014, and the rate of production continues to increase (see figure: 407 million tonnes in 2015, 302...

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Jan 30, 2019 Humane Education: Vaccinate Against Violence

Posted at 13:59h In Articles, Education - Humane, GFAS (Greyton Farm Animal Sanctuary), Global Awareness, WellBeing News - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

Humane education – teaching children to be kind to animals and not be cruel – is one of the foundations of the global animal protection movement. St. Thomas Aquinas, while holding that Catholics had no direct duties to animals, still argued that humans had indirect...

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Jan 30, 2019 Global Dog Campaign – a WellBeing International Initiative

Posted at 13:23h In Animals in Our World, Articles, Companion Animals - Dogs, WellBeing News - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

There are approximately 800 million dogs in the world today. Around 300 million are street dogs, and the others are mostly either pets or household guard dogs. The interactions communities have with street dogs is changing (see Oct 26 blog on a shelter in Costa...

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