Articles Archive

Jun 30, 2020 Companion Animals in a Time of COVID-19

Posted at 04:40h In Animals in Our World, Articles, Letter from the President, Population & Demographics, WellBeing News - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

As we continue to struggle with the current Covid-19 pandemic, it appears that there has been an uptick across the world in the demand for companion animals. In the early phases of the pandemic, there was some concern that our companion animals might be a...

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Jun 14, 2020 Contact with Nature Improves Mental Health and Well-Being

Posted at 05:29h In Articles, Global Awareness, People Well-being, Tales of WellBeing - By Alan E. Kazdin, PhD

With the onset and effort to control the coronavirus, many of us are confined to our homes and isolated from our extended family and social and work contacts that are so central to our lives. For those who have access to the internet and social...

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Jun 11, 2020 Karuna for Corona – Feeding the Homeless Dogs

Posted at 07:46h In Animals in Our World, Articles, BCI (Blue Cross of India), Companion Animals - Homeless, Tales of WellBeing - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

On March 24, the Indian government ordered a national 21-day lockdown as part of its response to the global Covid-19 pandemic. The lockdown has been extended several times and is now projected to last until June 30. This precaution has resulted in significant hardship for...

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May 30, 2020 Global Dog Populations

Posted at 09:57h In Animals in Our World, Articles, Letter from the President, Population & Demographics, WellBeing News - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

In human health management, we generally must know the size of the problem before we can manage it successfully. This is also true of the management of animals such as dogs and cats. This letter will address what we know about global dog populations on...

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

Posted at 05:04h In Articles, Global Awareness, Population & Demographics, WellBeing News - 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...

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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), Connectivity, Global Awareness, WellBeing News - 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...

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May 15, 2020 Going Beyond Symptomatic Treatment: Adopting One Health in India

Posted at 05:34h In Articles, Global Awareness, PAE Well-being, Tales of WellBeing - By Naveen Pandey, MVetSci

The advent of a mild winter was in the air around Kaziranga National Park, a UNESCO world heritage site nestled in the north-eastern corner of India. The mighty Brahmaputra River was returning to its normal course of flow after a massive episode of annual flooding....

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Apr 30, 2020 Time to Act Now – Why Compassion Counts

Posted at 13:49h In Articles, Global Awareness, PAE Well-being, WellBeing News - By Jill Robinson, MBE, Founder and CEO, Animals Asia

As the number of people tragically succumbing to Covid-19 grows across the world, we are left reeling with the terrible consequences of our actions and of our ongoing disregard of animal cruelty and hygiene in the live animal markets of Asia and across the world....

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

Posted at 12:48h In Articles, Global Awareness, 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...

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Apr 30, 2020 Sustainable Development & Trophy Hunting

Posted at 07:54h In Animals in Our World, Articles, Conservation, Letter from the President, WellBeing News - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

Sustainability has become a popular term encompassing the notion that we need to promote and pursue policies that will allow future generations of humans to live and benefit from the wealth provided by the Earth. In 2015, the United Nations (UN) adopted the 2030 Agenda...

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