Wild Animals Archive

Animals in War Memorial | credit: Darren Baker, Shutterstock

Nov 13, 2024 Animals in Conflict – Part 1: Conscripts and Victims

Posted at 13:19h In Animal Sentience, Animal Well-being, Articles, Companion Animals, Farm Animals, WellBeing News, Wild Animals, Working/Equid Animals - By Janice H. Cox, MBA and Jackson Zee

This article is the first installment of a three-part newsletter series examining the impact of human conflicts on animals. The newsletter series is adapted from the original blog by Cox and Zee, which was published by the Conflict and Environment Observatory and republished with their...

Lone wolf | Credit: Twitchy Films, AdobeStock

Oct 10, 2024 Changing Attitudes and Conflicts Over Wolf Management

Posted at 16:00h In Animal Well-being, Letter from the President, Public Awareness/Attitudes, Wild Animals - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

WellBeing News has published three articles on the changing attitudes towards wolves and the conflicts arising from wolf management in North America: The Wolf Pendulum in the United States, May 10, 2021, Human-Wolf Conflict and Wolf Protection, January 31, 2022, and Wolves Revisited, March 2,...

Little brown bat with white-nose syndrome, Ryan von Linden/New York Department of Environmental Conservation), Public Domain, https://www.fws.gov/media/little-brown-bat-white-nose-syndrome

Sep 19, 2024 Vultures in India & Bats in USA: Impact on Animal Welfare & Human Health

Posted at 15:31h In Articles, Public Awareness/Attitudes, Sustainability/Biodiversity, Well-being, WellBeing News, Wild Animals - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

A report by Frank and Sudarshan, ecological economists at the University of Chicago, provides an excellent example of how human and environmental well-being is connected to the well-being of animals – in this case, to the health of the vulture population in India. Ecological economics,...

Indonesian tiger | Credit: buddhawut, Shutterstock

Aug 29, 2024 Recovering Wild Tiger Population in Thailand

Posted at 15:40h In Animal Well-being, Articles, Public Awareness/Attitudes, Tales of WellBeing, Wild Animals - By Kathleen Rowan CEO, WellBeing International and Andrew Rowan, DPhil

The tiger, a creature of almost mystical, magical, and majestic allure and the subject of Blake's famous 1794 poem Tyger, is battling for survival in its final refuges in Thailand and Myanmar in Southeast Asia. The populations of tigers in the neighboring countries of Cambodia,...

Wild Bear Cubs | Credit: Hanna Glafke, iStock

Jul 24, 2024 The 1964 Wilderness Act: Transforming U.S. and Global Conservation

Posted at 13:43h In Articles, Environment Well-being, Ethics, Regulation, Law, Public Awareness/Attitudes, Tales of WellBeing, Wild Animals - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

The Wilderness Act was signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson on September 3, 1964. The USA system of wilderness areas now includes over 800 areas covering more than 110 million acres. Currently, all but six states—Connecticut, Delaware, Iowa, Kansas, Maryland, and Rhode Island—have...

Mosquite | Credit: Melissa Harp, Shutterstock

Jul 08, 2024 Climate, Health and Dengue

Posted at 10:06h In Articles, Climate Change, Environment Well-being, Human Well-being, WellBeing News, Wild Animals - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil and Kathleen Rowan CEO, WellBeing International

Impact of Climate on Human HealthOn April 5, 2024, the World Bank released a brief on the impact of climate change on human health. According to the report, a warmer climate could result in at least 21 million additional deaths by 2025 due to five...

Baby elephant | Credit: Right Cameraman, AdobeStock

Jun 18, 2024 Communicating Animals: A Doctor Dolittle Story

Posted at 15:46h In Articles, Public Awareness/Attitudes, Tales of WellBeing, Wild Animals - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

In 1980, Robert Seyfarth, Dorothy Cheney and Peter Marler published a paper in Science reporting that a vervet monkey troop in Amboseli National Park in Kenya used three different alarm calls to signify danger respectively from eagles, leopards and snakes. According to Snowdon, this paper...

European Roller | Credit: Film Studio Aves, iStock

Jun 18, 2024 A Roller Bird Gathers No Moss

Posted at 15:40h In Articles, Public Awareness/Attitudes, Tales of WellBeing, Wild Animals - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

How animals migrate reliably from one place to another yearly has been an enduring puzzle. Donald Griffin, the discoverer of bat echolocation, also investigated bird migration to determine how birds could navigate the ocean. He and his colleagues tracked migrating flocks using a repurposed military...

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%...

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...