John Hadidian, PhD, Author at WellBeing International

Feb 20, 2024 Beaver: Nature’s Ecosystem Rewilders

Posted at 14:21h In Animal Sentience, Animal Well-being, Articles, Environment Well-being, Land Management, Public Awareness/Attitudes, Sustainability/Biodiversity, Tales of WellBeing, Wild Animals - By John Hadidian, PhD

In 1700, so many beaver pelts were stored in Montreal warehouses that they threatened to glut the market, something that traders had already experienced in previous years. So, fearing that prices in Europe would crash, orders were given to pile up and burn fully three-quarters...

Wren | Photo credit: Andrew Howe, iStock

Apr 16, 2023 The Avid Birder

Posted at 16:29h In Articles, Public Awareness/Attitudes, Tales of WellBeing, Wild Animals - By John Hadidian, PhD

In 1955, The United States Fish and Wildlife (FWS) inaugurated a periodic survey focused on Americans’ recreational, wildlife-related activities. One might immediately assume that hunting and fishing would dominate this field, but that would be wrong by a long shot (pun intended). While some 40...

Urban Fox | Video credit: attapun_an | shutterstock

Dec 06, 2022 Living with Urban Foxes

Posted at 16:10h In Animal Well-being, Articles, Public Awareness/Attitudes, Sustainability/Biodiversity, WellBeing News, Wild Animals - By John Hadidian, PhD

The red fox (Vulpes vulpes) is the most widely distributed wild carnivore on the planet, with a natural range that spans the entire Northern Hemisphere. Below the equator, foxes have been introduced to the Falkland Islands and Australia, where they cause widespread damage to domestic...

Book cover of "The Accidental Ecosystem"

Sep 13, 2022 Book Review: “The Accidental Ecosystem: People and Wildlife in American Cities”

Posted at 14:56h In Animal Well-being, Book Review, Tales of WellBeing, Wild Animals - By John Hadidian, PhD

The lockdowns of the recent pandemic are said to have led to an "Anthropause" – a dramatic release of human pressure on the nonhuman world. From media coverage capturing feral hogs roaming city streets in Europe to daytime sightings of bears and bobcats in American...

William Hollingsworth "Holly" Whyte (left), during a visit to downtown Chattanooga in 1984. Photo: Chattanooga Venture Records, Chattanooga Public Library

Jul 05, 2022 Cities, Nature and Human Well-being

Posted at 11:29h In Articles, Human Well-being, WellBeing News - By John Hadidian, PhD

Above: William Hollingsworth "Holly" Whyte (left), during a visit to downtown Chattanooga in 1984. Photo credit: Chattanooga Venture Records, Chattanooga Public LibraryWilliam H. Whyte (1917-1999) may be best remembered as the author of The Organization Man. This 1956 bestseller described a corporate America in which,...

Coyote crossing the road | Photo credit: Henryk Sadura

Nov 01, 2021 Urban Wildlife in New York City

Posted at 11:01h In Articles, WellBeing News, Wild Animals - By John Hadidian, PhD

New Yorkers have never been shy about their city’s achievements. Witness a recent article by Lisa M. Collins (Eagles, Beavers, Sea Turtles: Why N.Y.C. Is Humming with Wildlife - Oct. 28 NYTimes) that celebrates the city as “humming with wildlife” and enjoying a “surprising” renaissance...

Aug 17, 2021 Cat Management Successes

Posted at 12:16h In Animal Well-being, Articles, Companion Animals, WellBeing News - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil and John Hadidian, PhD

Over the past five to ten years, the academic literature on cat management (specifically outdoor cat management) projects have been enriched by dozens of papers looking at public attitudes to cats and different cat management options and detailing the effects of some cat management projects...

Domesticated fox | Photo credit: Dgwildlife

Jul 21, 2021 Urban Fox Evolution

Posted at 14:49h In Animal Well-being, Articles, Tales of WellBeing, Wild Animals - By John Hadidian, PhD and Andrew Rowan, DPhil

There are many examples of animal evolution in which wild creatures adapt to take advantage of urban or industrial environments. A recent paper describes some details of urban fox evolution. As with many such findings, the story began with a researcher, Kevin Parsons, asking some...

Feb 26, 2021 Revisiting the Cat Predation Issue

Posted at 08:30h In Animals, Articles, Companion Animals, WellBeing News - By John Hadidian, PhD and Andrew Rowan, DPhil

In 2013, a paper in the journal Nature Communications appeared that estimated that cat predation in the United States led to an estimated death of 1.3 - 4.0 billion birds every year. This large range in the predation estimate was due to the big uncertainties...

An image of a family of foxes, with a mother fox and her little ones

Dec 07, 2020 Backyard Wildlife

Posted at 09:13h In Animals, Articles, WellBeing News - By John Hadidian, PhD

Are suburban yards/gardens good for wildlife? If you are one of the 57 million Americans who feed and watch birds at home that question may seem a little silly. And that number does not include the additional 15 million people who say they enjoy observing...

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