Wild Animals in Water Archives

Aug 02, 2023 Exploring and Debating Sentience – of Fish and Plants

Posted at 10:56h In Animal Sentience, Articles, WellBeing News, Wild Animals in Water, Wild Animals on Land - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

In March 2014, the Humane Society Institute for Science and Policy organized a conference in Washington on animal sentience. Following the meeting, several participants asked whether any follow-up was planned. Their queries prompted the establishment of a new, open-peer-commentary journal, Animal Sentience, with cognitive scientist...

Coal fire with wind power in Germany | Photo credit: Eisenlohr,

Nov 01, 2021 Climate Change and COP26

Posted at 11:31h In Articles, Environment Well-being, Environment, Sustainability & Climate, Letter from the President, Well-being, WellBeing News, Wild Animals in Water, Wild Animals on Land - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil and Kathleen Rowan CEO, WellBeing International

The Letter from the President for September 2021 addressed climate change. This Letter is a follow-up to the previous Letter in September, but we revisit the topic because its importance and gravity to humanity cannot be overstated. We hope to provide a brief primer on...

Horseshoe Crab on Slaughter Beach | Photo credit: milehightraveler

Jun 15, 2021 Horseshoe Crabs Come Ashore!

Posted at 19:00h In Animal Well-being, Animals in Our World, Articles, Education, Land & Oceans, Tales of WellBeing, Wild Animals in Water - By Laura Gosse

After 15 months of looking at the four walls of our house and now fully vaccinated, we were eager to be anywhere but there. So, for our first foray, we travelled 2 hours to Slaughter Beach, a small Delaware community on the shores of the...

May 18, 2021 My Octopus Teacher wins at BAFTA and Oscars

Posted at 10:28h In Animals in Our World, Articles, Tales of WellBeing, Well-being, Wild Animals in Water, Wildlife - By Andrew Rowan

Last year, WBI ran a story about the South African documentary, My Octopus Teacher and recommended it to our readers. Many then watched the documentary (on Netflix) and sang its praises to their friends and contacts. This year, My Octopus Teacher, was nominated for numerous...

Photo of the filmmaker and the Octopus Teacher | Photo credit: Ross Frylinck

Oct 15, 2020 An Octopus-Human Relationship

Posted at 11:52h In Articles, Land & Oceans, Tales of WellBeing, Wild Animals in Water - By Andrew Rowan

The stars of the new Netflix documentary, My Octopus Teacher, are Craig Foster, a film maker, and a small boneless creature, Octopus vulgaris or the Common Octopus. For most humans, the only view of an octopus will be in an aquarium. However, Craig Foster visited...

A charismatic reptile makes for memorable snorkeling and scuba diving in Hawaii

Jul 19, 2020 How do Sea Turtles Find their Way?

Posted at 06:01h In Articles, Tales of WellBeing, Wild Animals in Water - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil and Andrew Rowan

Sea turtles have been shown to have the remarkable ability to find their way across thousands of kilometers of open ocean back to a specific beach where they lay their eggs or to a specific feeding ground. Early in this century, the American scientists Kenneth...

Jun 30, 2020 Sustainable Fisheries?

Posted at 16:07h In Articles, Environment, Sustainability & Climate, WellBeing News, Wild Animals in Water - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

The total global catch of wild fish increased from 31 million metric tons in 1950 to a high of 130 million metric tons in 1996 before falling back to 109 million metric tons in 2010. However, from 1950 onwards, 366 of 1,519 fisheries collapsed (defined...

May 30, 2020 Shifting Baselines: Understanding the True Extent of Wildlife Decline

Posted at 05:04h In Articles, WellBeing News, Wild Animals in Water, Wild Animals on Land - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

Over the past few years, news stories describing the global wildlife decline have generally referenced the Living Planet Index (LPI), which is based on methodology developed by the World Wildlife Fund and the Zoological Society of London. The LPI indicates that wildlife populations have declined...

Sep 14, 2019 Animal Welfare and the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

Posted at 09:00h In Articles, Environment, Sustainability & Climate, WellBeing News, Wild Animals in Water, Wild Animals on Land - By Beth Allgood

Since 2015, the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have served as a framework for a holistic approach to development that recognizes the need to incorporate non-economic measures of growth and human well-being. The SDG guidelines are a bold attempt to accomplish some of the most...

Sep 10, 2019 Linking SDGs and Animal Welfare: A Global Perspective

Posted at 11:30h In Articles, Environment, Sustainability & Climate, Resources, Wild Animals in Water, Wild Animals on Land - By Kathleen Rowan

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...

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