Often, when one hears about animal rescues they aren’t told the complete chain of events that has to occur for the rescue to be successful. The following story allows us to follow the rescue journey of one dog through her eyes and through those of...
For those interested in data and understanding current global challenges but who have not yet visited the website, Our World in Data, we would strongly urge spending some time browsing the site. This January a new article appeared addressing the very confusing issue of the...
[caption id="attachment_3280" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] Members of the Monitoring team – Wilmohr Williams, Jirmaine Lewis, Bertrim Moses, Andrew White (Greyton Conservation Society) and Leefred Damons. Photo by K. Rowan[/caption]On the recent trip to Africa by WellBeing International, we had the privilege of meeting with the Field...
The Third Africa Animal Welfare Conference took place in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia 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...
The theme of the Third African Animal Welfare conference was the connection between the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and Animal Welfare. Dr. Andrew Rowan was asked to give a presentation that addressed how the SDGs intersected with global animal welfare. There are seventeen SDGs...
For more than two millennia, honey has been used by humans to treat wounds and skin infections. However, as modern medicine produced a variety of antiseptics and anti-microbials, the use of honey to treat wounds was largely lost to medicine. However, honey is still called...
Charles Rowan, as he was known by the local veterinary practice that tended to his health needs, was a beloved member of the Rowan family for almost fourteen years. He was an excellent ambassador for dogs and for all animals – at least among his...
A recent sterilization clinic held in Guapiles by our partner organization served a remarkable woman – 96-year old Ana Julia Espinoza. She walked three kilometers with her three cats to have them sterilized.For the past five years, our partner organization, the Costa Rican shelter Asociacion...
[caption id="attachment_1667" align="alignleft" width="368"] "Brave Valentina is our CIO (Chief Inspiration Officer) because her fight to survive and the joy of her new beginning touch us deeply and make us think about what is possible for desperate animals around the world."[/caption]No matter how bleak things...
[caption id="attachment_643" align="alignleft" width="300"] Greyton, South Africa's Baboon Monitor Team[/caption]A recent posting on Facebook by a resident of Greyton, a town (and artists’ retreat) about 80 miles from Cape Town in South Africa, asked readers if they were wondering why they were not seeing baboons around or...
