Wild Animals on Land Archives

May 30, 2020 IUCN ‘Guidelines for Conserving Connectivity through Ecological Networks and Corridors’

Posted at 04:53h In Articles, CLLC (Center for Large Landscape Conservation), Environment, Sustainability & Climate, Land Management, One Health, WellBeing News, Wild Animals on Land - By Rachel Caldwell

The Center for Large Landscape Conservation (CLLC) is working to mainstream connectivity conservation solutions around the world that save biodiversity, increase resilience to climate change, and safeguard human health. To this end, CLLC supports the new IUCN Guidelines and the operations of the Connectivity Conservation...

Apr 30, 2020 Don’t Blame Wildlife for Covid-19

Posted at 12:48h In Articles, WellBeing News, Wild Animals on Land - By Mark Jones BVSc, MSc (Stir), MSc (UL), MRCVS

The coronavirus pandemic sweeping across the world is causing physical, social and economic disruption on an unprecedented scale.By April 21, 2020, around 2.5 million Covid-19 cases had been reported across the world. More than 170,000 people had died, and the numbers keep rising. A huge...

Mar 13, 2020 Zakouma, Chad – A Dying to Living Story

Posted at 14:06h In Articles, Tales of WellBeing, Wild Animals on Land, Wildlife - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

[caption id="attachment_7103" align="alignleft" width="500"] Elephant calf drinking in Zakouma, NP, Chad as part of the largest elephant herd in Africa. Photo by Thomas Clode[/caption]The Chadian government established the Zakouma National Park, a 3,000 Km2 area in the south-east of the country, in 1963. At the...

Rescued fox | Photo credit: Rachael Brown

Mar 13, 2020 Wildlife Rescue – The Guide

Posted at 06:24h In Articles, Tales of WellBeing, Wild Animals on Land, Wildlife - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

Most of us will have had an occasion to rescue an injured or ill wild animal, whether it be a mouse that the cat has caught, a bird that has flown into a window or something more exotic. I suspect that we then scramble to...

Feb 26, 2020 Managing Cats for Cats, Wildlife & People

Posted at 09:31h In Articles, Companion Animals, Letter from the President, Resources, WellBeing News, Wild Animals on Land - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

In the January 2020 issue of our Tales of WellBeing, we related the story of an outdoor cat project on Key Largo, Florida, called ORCAT – Ocean Reef Cat Project. To most people the cat management project has been a big success, reducing the number of...

Feb 26, 2020 Impact of the Coronavirus Outbreak on Wildlife

Posted at 09:20h In Animal Well-being, Wild Animals on Land - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

Health authorities around the world are now bracing to deal with the growing threat of the latest coronavirus zoonosis. But there are already silver linings beginning to appear on this particular dark cloud. The Chinese government very recently (and very quickly) passed a new nationwide...

Baboon eating spaghetti, Jonkerhuis Restaurant, Cape Town, Sept. 2019. https://www.capetownetc.com/news/pasta-eating-baboon-still-alive/

Dec 27, 2019 Wild Animals on Our Doorstep

Posted at 07:42h In Articles, GFAS (Greyton Farm Animal Sanctuary), WellBeing News, Wild Animals on Land - By Andrew White

The world over, wild animals pose a challenge to humans, from elephants in the savannah to coyotes in suburbia. Greyton, a community of 11,000 people about 80 miles from Cape Town, is not exempt. Here we have our own set of problems shared by many...

Dec 19, 2019 Hunting the Wren – A Holiday Bird by Elizabeth Atwood Lawrence

Posted at 09:11h In Book Review, Resources, Wild Animals on Land - By Elizabeth Atwood Lawrence

Reviewed by Andrew Rowan - There are many celebrations involving animals around the world. Many will be familiar with the story of Peter and the Wolf and the version put to music by Prokofiev (his most frequently performed work) where each animal is represented by...

Oct 31, 2019 Greyton Human-Baboon Conflict

Posted at 06:09h In GFAS (Greyton Farm Animal Sanctuary), Tales of WellBeing, Wild Animals on Land - By Kathleen Rowan

[caption id="attachment_3280" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] Members of the Monitoring team – Wilmohr Williams, Jirmaine Lewis, Bertrim Moses, Andrew White (Greyton Conservation Society) and Leefred Damons. Photo by K. Rowan[/caption]On the recent trip to Africa by WellBeing International, we had the privilege of meeting with the Field...

Oct 29, 2019 Global Animal Protection

Posted at 10:06h In Animals in Our World, Articles, Letter from the President, Public Awareness/Attitudes, Resources, WellBeing News, Wild Animals on Land - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

September and October are traditionally heavy conference months across the world and that is true in the animal protection space as well. In the past seven weeks, WellBeing International has attended and spoken at five conferences in Addis Ababa, Cape Town, Mombasa, Sydney and Dalian...

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