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Jun 18, 2024 Animal Rescue in Costa Rica

Posted at 15:35h In AHPPA (Asociación Humanitaria para la Protección Animal), Animal Well-being, Articles, Companion Animals, Global Dog Campaign, Tales of WellBeing - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil and Kathleen Rowan CEO, WellBeing International

In 2015, Costa Rican government agencies brought seized and rescued companion animals from substandard conditions or illegal activities such as dog fighting to the animal shelter near San Jose. The shelter, run by the Asociación Humanitaria Para la Protección Animal (AHPPA), a partner organization in...

Lists and reports from World Animal Protection and American League Defense Fund

Jun 10, 2024 Do Lists Improve Animal Protection?

Posted at 13:31h In Animal Well-being, Animals, Articles, Public Awareness/Attitudes, WellBeing News - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

It has been suggested that humans should be categorized as the species Homo classification rather than Homo sapiens because we are so attracted to making lists and developing categories to simplify and organize the world around us. For example, journalists recognize that the audience will...

Humpback Whale | Credit: Lightleak Films, AdobeStock

May 20, 2024 Animals, Biodiversity, and Climate Change

Posted at 10:55h In Articles, Climate Change, Land Management, Public Awareness/Attitudes, Sustainability/Biodiversity, Tales of WellBeing, Well-being, Wild Animals - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

On December 19, 2022, representatives from 188 countries adopted a new agreement on biodiversity, now known as the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF). The 2022 GBF aims to halt and reverse biodiversity loss by adopting four overarching global goals and 23 targets, including conserving 30%...

Kerasote's dogs, from left to right Burley, Pukka, Goo, A.J

May 20, 2024 Dog Longevity: The True Value of a Dog Year!

Posted at 10:41h In Animal Well-being, Articles, Companion Animals, Public Awareness/Attitudes - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

Ted Kerasote is an outdoorsman and author who has written three charming and insightful books about the human-dog relationship – Merle's Door (2007), Pukka, The Pup after Merle (2010), and Pukka's Promise (2013). Pukka's Promise relates the story of Kerasote's search for a dog that...

Cows and chickens | Photo credit: Pedro, AdobeStock

May 08, 2024 Bird Flu Spreading to Farmed Mammals in the US

Posted at 17:10h In Animal Well-being, Articles, Farm Animals, Human Well-being, Letter from the President, Public Awareness/Attitudes - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil and Hope Ferdowsian, M.D., M.P.H.

WellBeing International has published four articles on the Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza Virus (HPAIV) in the past fourteen months. Science has published seven news stories on bird flu this year. The most recent story (May 1, 2024) was titled “Scientists Call New Measures to Control...

2 people with their pet | Photo credit: Mutovin, iStock

May 08, 2024 Human-Animal Interactions and Edibility?

Posted at 17:01h In Articles, Companion Animals, Well-being, WellBeing News - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

In 1964, a provocative essay was published by British social anthropologist Edmund Leach in the proceedings of the 17th International Congress of Psychology. The organizer of the congress, Eric Lenneberg, commented that he used the occasion to invite outstanding scientists to discuss the phenomenon of...

Service dogs and their veterans | Photo credits: K9 Warriors and Warrior Canine Connections

Apr 17, 2024 Service Dogs for Veterans

Posted at 12:18h In Animal Well-being, Articles, Companion Animals, Human Well-being, Tales of WellBeing - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil and Kathleen Rowan CEO, WellBeing International

IntroductionWellBeing International continues to explore the potential health benefits of the human-animal bond and return to the benefits of service dogs for veterans in this newsletter. There are now many organizations promoting and providing service dogs for veterans. WBI focuses on two organizations that provide...

Cancun Kitty | Photo credit: Marco VDM, iSTock

Apr 04, 2024 The Latest Australian “Threat Abatement Plan” for Cats

Posted at 20:07h In Articles, Companion Animals, Land Management, WellBeing News, Wild Animals - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

Following the release on September 4, 2023, of a report by IPBES on the adverse impact of invasive alien species on global biodiversity, the Australian Government announced that it was again “declaring war” on cats (the Government declared war on cats in 2015, pledging to...

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Apr 04, 2024 Roadkill: Citizen Science at Work

Posted at 20:03h In Articles, Public Awareness/Attitudes, WellBeing News, Wild Animals - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

In 1992, Brewster Bartlett, a science teacher at Pinkerton Academy in New Hampshire, started a citizen science project encouraging his students to use email. Driving back to the school one day, he passed a dead skunk on the side of the road. He decided that...

Eurasian Eagle Owl | Video Credit: Varunee Somwat, iStock

Mar 25, 2024 Celebrity Birds of New York City

Posted at 11:55h In Articles, Human Well-being, Public Awareness/Attitudes, Tales of WellBeing, Wild Animals - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

New York City has more than its share of celebrity residents. It is, therefore, perhaps not surprising that the city may also find itself all atwitter because of the presence of avian celebrities. Pale Male, a red-tailed hawk who took up residence on one of...

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