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Nov 29, 2021 Global Dog Campaign Case Studies: Kabul, Afghanistan; Chennai, India; Heredia, Costa Rica

Posted at 09:56h In AHPPA (Asociación Humanitaria para la Protección Animal), Animal Well-being, Animals, Articles, BCI (Blue Cross of India), Companion Animals, Global Dog Campaign, Mayhew Afghanistan, WellBeing News - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

Kabul, AfghanistanAfghanistan recently experienced a change in government, leading to chaotic scenes at Kabul airport as countries evacuated their personnel and individual Afghan citizens sought to leave the country. Dogs were also caught up in this chaos as some animal advocates sought, mostly unsuccessfully, to...

Nov 29, 2021 Dog Homelessness and Development of WBI’s Global Dog Campaign

Posted at 09:52h In Animals, Articles, Companion Animals, Global Dog Campaign, Letter from the President, WellBeing News - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

On November 30th, we are holding the first webinar on dog homelessness and WBI's Global Dog Campaign (GDC), and it seems an appropriate time to review the background leading up to this moment. In 1983, I started working on dog/cat welfare and demographics in the...

Global Dog Campaign | Photo credit: Blue Cross of India

Nov 15, 2021 WellBeing International’s Global Dog Campaign to End Dog Homelessness

Posted at 14:39h In Articles, Companion Animals, Tales of WellBeing - By Andrew Rowan

As the world begins to emerge from the pandemic, WellBeing International wants to refocus its efforts on the global concerns of the world's homeless dog population. We invite interested readers to join us on Tuesday (November 30) at noon (EST) for a free webinar reviewing...

Nov 15, 2021 Bird and Cat Advocates in Harmony: Yes, When Pigs Fly!

Posted at 14:25h In Animal Well-being, Articles, Companion Animals, Tales of WellBeing, Wild Animals - By Nancy Peterson

Meeting Mary Harris after I retired and moved to Colorado changed my life. She's the chair of Roaring Fork Audubon and became my mentor for all things bird. Although I was a birdwatcher back in Maryland, I was not a birder. I enjoyed sitting on...

Nov 15, 2021 A Dog’s World: Imagining the Lives of Dogs in a World without Humans.

Posted at 14:02h In Book Review, Companion Animals, Tales of WellBeing - By Andrew Rowan

This book is an imaginative analysis of what might happen to the 800 million to one billion dogs in the world if humans suddenly disappeared. Still, there are probably few better scholars to describe and flesh out this imaginary dog’s world. Both authors -- Jessica...

Nov 01, 2021 Roads & Wildlife: Safeguarding Asia’s Rich Biodiversity

Posted at 11:19h In Articles, CLLC (Center for Large Landscape Conservation), WellBeing News, Wild Animals - By Christine Gianas Weinheimer

For many of us, wildlife-vehicle collisions are a fact of life. In some areas where roads bisect wildlife habitat, collisions or near misses with large mammals like deer are all too familiar, and countless smaller creatures like turtles and squirrels fall victim to automobiles every...

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...

Oct 13, 2021 Celebrating “Fat Bears” to Promote Conservation

Posted at 16:53h In Animal Well-being, Articles, Education, Tales of WellBeing, Wild Animals, Wildlife on Land - By Andrew Rowan

Every year since 2014, the Katmai National Park in Alaska has run a competition over the internet to identify a Fat Bear winner based on votes cast by members of the public who watch the Brown bears in the park via webcams as they fatten...

Elephants Kai and Achara at the Oklahoma City Zoo

Oct 13, 2021 Kairavi – The Comeback Calf

Posted at 15:52h In Animal Well-being, Articles, Tales of WellBeing, Wild Animals - By Andrew Rowan and Kathleen Rowan

There are many threats to the survival of elephants in the world today, with poaching and habitat loss being among the most obvious. Disease is also an important factor, especially for elephants under human care where a recently discovered herpes virus – elephant endotheliotropic herpes...

Pink-backed pelicans | Photo credit: Gus Akerhielm

Oct 04, 2021 Counting Birds and Other Wild Animals

Posted at 12:00h In Animal Well-being, Animals, Articles, Sustainability/Biodiversity, WellBeing News - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

Estimating the total number of wild animals in a particular location or country has always been challenging. Still, better data on wild animal numbers are needed to recognize changes, identify the causes, and what might be done to address such changes. The Living Planet Report...

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