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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...

Deer & Vehicles | Photo credit: tang90246, iStock

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...

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...

Wolves | Credit: Film Studio Aves, iStock

Feb 05, 2024 Animals and Healthy Ecosystems: It’s Complicated!

Posted at 14:23h In Animal Well-being, Articles, Sustainability/Biodiversity, WellBeing News, Wild Animals - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

Wild animals are integral to healthy ecosystems; even small changes in species composition may affect biodiversity. For example, a recent paper reports that an invasive ant from Mauritius has adversely affected lion predation in Kenya by reducing the impact of native ants who protect acacia...

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