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Sep 30, 2020 WellBeing International Studies Repository – Providing Access to Useful Data and Important Studies

Posted at 13:56h In Animal Well-being, Articles, Education, Environment Well-being, Human Well-being, Letter from the President, One Health, WBI Studies Respository, WellBeing News - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

In 2020, there were reportedly over 5 billion unique mobile phone users worldwide (two-thirds of the world’s total population). Of these, 2.9 billion are using smartphones. These numbers translate to the growing availability of an extraordinary global marketplace for ideas and influence. Every smartphone user...

Photos of Shila and Desi and their babies.

Sep 16, 2020 Two Rehabilitated and Released Orangutans Observed with Babies in Indonesia

Posted at 18:00h In Animal Well-being, Animals, Articles, Tales of WellBeing - By Andrew Rowan

Mostly, the news featuring orangutans is very depressing. In just sixteen years (1999-2015), wild Bornean orangutan populations have declined by over 100,000 according to a recent estimate. CITES reports that the Bornean orangutan population (changed to “critically endangered” in 2016) has declined by 86% since...

Pet cat in a crate | Photo credit: frantic00

Sep 16, 2020 Domestic Abuse Support – Good News for People and their Animals

Posted at 16:08h In Animals, Articles, Companion Animals, One Health, Tales of WellBeing, Well-being - By Kathleen Rowan

When Hurricane Katrina devastated the states of Louisiana and Mississippi, forcing the evacuation of tens of thousands of citizens from New Orleans and other coastal communities, many people with pets chose to stay behind because they could not find anywhere that would allow them to...

Aug 25, 2020 African Wildlife, Eco-Tourism & COVID

Posted at 18:28h In Animals, Articles, Land Management, Letter from the President, Sustainability/Biodiversity, WellBeing News, Wildlife on Land - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

The UN World Tourism Agency published a report in 2015 on the importance of wildlife tourism to national economies in Africa. About half of global wildlife tourism involves a visit to an African country, resulting in 6 million tourists a year visiting Sub-Saharan Africa (about...

Aug 23, 2020 Individual Choices and Global Well-being

Posted at 18:45h In Articles, Human Well-being, One Health, Well-being, WellBeing News - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

WellBeing International is now focusing on the ways that we as individuals can modify our behavior to improve our own health and well-being as well as reducing our impact on the world around us – positively affecting what we have called the PAE Triad (People,...

Puppies in Kabul | Photo credit: Mayhew Afghanistan

Aug 22, 2020 The Problem with Dogs

Posted at 18:21h In Animals, Articles, Companion Animals, WellBeing News - By Harry Eckman

When was the last time you saw a street dog? If you live in Western Europe or North America, the answer is probably some years ago. If you live in India, Africa, Latin America, Asia, Eastern Europe or pretty much anywhere else, the answer is...

Jul 19, 2020 Communing with Crows

Posted at 15:12h In Animals, Articles, Companion Animals, Tales of WellBeing, Wildlife on Land - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

Following the recommendations of our esteemed colleague, Dr. Alan Kazdin, who has written in a previous WellBeing newsletter about the importance of being in natural settings for human mental and physical health, we bring you a tale about a relationship that has developed between one...

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, Wildlife 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, Sustainability/Biodiversity, WellBeing News, Wildlife 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...

Jun 30, 2020 Wildlife Crossings

Posted at 06:37h In Articles, Land Management, WellBeing News, Wildlife on Land - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

In June, the House of Representatives included dedicated funding in the INVEST in America Act (HR2) to reduce wildlife-vehicle collisions. Renee Callahan, Senior Policy Officer for our Partner, the Center for Large Landscape Conservation (CLLC), noted that wildlife-vehicle collisions cost over $8 billion a year...

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