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Jan 30, 2019 Humane Education: Vaccinate Against Violence

Posted at 13:59h In Articles, Education - Humane, GFAS (Greyton Farm Animal Sanctuary), Global Awareness, WellBeing News - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

Humane education – teaching children to be kind to animals and not be cruel – is one of the foundations of the global animal protection movement. St. Thomas Aquinas, while holding that Catholics had no direct duties to animals, still argued that humans had indirect...

Jan 30, 2019 Global Dog Campaign – a WellBeing International Initiative

Posted at 13:23h In Animals in Our World, Articles, Companion Animals - Dogs, WellBeing News - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

There are approximately 800 million dogs in the world today. Around 300 million are street dogs, and the others are mostly either pets or household guard dogs. The interactions communities have with street dogs is changing (see Oct 26 blog on a shelter in Costa...

Jan 30, 2019 Plastics – Environmental Protection

Posted at 13:07h In Articles, Environment Well-being, Global Awareness, WellBeing News - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

Many readers are likely already aware of the threat of plastic pollution to the environment, especially plastic in the world’s oceans. This issue has built rapidly in the last few years and there are several new NGOs launched in the last few years that focus...

Jan 30, 2019 History and Impact of The Johns Hopkins Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing: Developments for Humans and Animals in Safety Testing and Risk Assessment.

Posted at 06:20h In Articles, Global Awareness, Research Animals, WellBeing News - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

Andrew N Rowan speaking at Johns Hopkins School of Public Health and Hygiene on November 28, 2018, on the Impact that the Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing has had on the field since its founding in 1981. View presentation. In 2007, the National Research Council...

Jan 10, 2019 Foundation of WellBeing International

Posted at 11:01h In Articles, Global Awareness, Letter from the President, PAE Well-being, WellBeing News - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

WellBeing International (WBI) was founded on the basis that improving the long-term well-being of people should, with suitable foresight and wisdom, also involve improving the well-being of animals and the environment, and vice-versa. We believe there are ways to improve the well-being of all three...

Nov 28, 2018 Promoting Well-Being: Human-Animal Interaction to Improve Mental and Physical Health and the Quality of Life

Posted at 12:42h In Articles, Global Awareness, Human-Animal Interaction, Tales of WellBeing - By Alan E. Kazdin, PhD

Republished April 15, 2020, originally published November 28, 2018 A recent article in the Guardian newspaper (UK) by Dr. Ranjana Srivastava comments on the importance of the human-animal connection for some of her patients. Dr. Srivastava conveys poignantly and concretely how pets influence our lives and...

Oct 26, 2018 Changing Human-Dog Interactions In Costa Rica

Posted at 10:45h In AHPPA (Asociación Humanitaria para la Protección Animal), Animals in Our World, Articles, Companion Animals - Dogs - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

Human-dog interactions have been changing around the world over the past fifty or more years. In North America in the 1960s for example, a significant proportion of pet dogs were allowed to roam freely and there were estimates that maybe 25% of the dogs on...

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Jan 30, 2019 Humane Education: Vaccinate Against Violence

Jan 30, 2019 Global Dog Campaign – a WellBeing International Initiative

Jan 30, 2019 Plastics – Environmental Protection

Jan 30, 2019 History and Impact of The Johns Hopkins Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing: Developments for Humans and Animals in Safety Testing and Risk Assessment.

Jan 10, 2019 Foundation of WellBeing International

Nov 28, 2018 Promoting Well-Being: Human-Animal Interaction to Improve Mental and Physical Health and the Quality of Life

Oct 26, 2018 Changing Human-Dog Interactions In Costa Rica

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Jan 30, 2019 Humane Education: Vaccinate Against Violence

Jan 30, 2019 Global Dog Campaign – a WellBeing International Initiative

Jan 30, 2019 Plastics – Environmental Protection

Jan 30, 2019 History and Impact of The Johns Hopkins Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing: Developments for Humans and Animals in Safety Testing and Risk Assessment.

Jan 10, 2019 Foundation of WellBeing International

Nov 28, 2018 Promoting Well-Being: Human-Animal Interaction to Improve Mental and Physical Health and the Quality of Life

Oct 26, 2018 Changing Human-Dog Interactions In Costa Rica

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