Conservation Archive

Aug 29, 2024 Recovering Wild Tiger Population in Thailand

Posted at 15:40h In Animals in Our World, Articles, Conservation, Population & Demographics, Tales of WellBeing - By Kathleen Rowan CEO, WellBeing International and Andrew Rowan, DPhil

The tiger, a creature of almost mystical, magical, and majestic allure and the subject of Blake's famous 1794 poem Tyger, is battling for survival in its final refuges in Thailand and Myanmar in Southeast Asia. The populations of tigers in the neighboring countries of Cambodia,...

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Feb 03, 2023 Rhino Conservation in Africa

Posted at 10:31h In Animals in Our World, Articles, Conservation, WellBeing News - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

The recovery of White Rhino populations in Africa (specifically South Africa) has been widely lauded as an exceptional conservation success, and the numbers support that claim. In 1895, only 20 white rhinos were left in Africa – all in the Hluhluwe Park (pronounced glugluey with...

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Oct 13, 2021 Celebrating “Fat Bears” to Promote Conservation

Posted at 16:53h In Animals in Our World, Articles, Conservation, Tales of WellBeing - By Andrew Rowan

Every year since 2014, the Katmai National Park in Alaska has run a competition over the internet to identify a Fat Bear winner based on votes cast by members of the public who watch the Brown bears in the park via webcams as they fatten...

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Jun 15, 2021 Horseshoe Crabs Come Ashore!

Posted at 19:00h In Articles, Conservation, Global Awareness, Tales of WellBeing - 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...

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Jun 15, 2021 How to Save our Planet: An 8-minute thought-provoking video from the World Wildlife Fund

Posted at 18:18h In Articles, Conservation, Global Awareness, Tales of WellBeing - By Andrew Rowan

This video is worth watching simply to feast on the photographs and video images from around the world. The images are stunning, but they are freighted with warnings and eventually with an outline of specific goals that the video argues could help humans change the...

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May 28, 2021 South Africa Changing Direction on the “Sustainable” Use of Wildlife?

Posted at 10:22h In Animals in Our World, Articles, Conservation, WellBeing News - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

On May 2 this year, the South African Minister of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment, Barbara Creecy, released a High Level Panel (HLP) report on the sustainable use of wildlife involving the management, breeding, hunting, trade and handling of elephant, lion, leopard and rhino.  In...

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Apr 16, 2021 Rhinos in Nepal: A Back from the Brink of Extinction Story!

Posted at 11:25h In Animals in Our World, Articles, Conservation, Tales of WellBeing - By Hemanta R. Mishra, PhD

Despite the Covid pandemic (and unlike in Africa where poaching is driving rhinos toward extinction in the wild), 2021 has proved to be a good year for the Greater One-horned Asian Rhinoceros, aka Indian Rhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicornis), in Nepal.  An intensive three-week census (22 March...

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Mar 30, 2021 Rhino Decline Shock

Posted at 13:56h In Animals in Our World, Articles, Conservation, Letter from the President, WellBeing News - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

The Kruger National Park in South Africa is home to the largest wild rhino population in the world. But a 2019 census documenting a dramatic decline in the Kruger rhino population in just ten years has shocked rhino conservation organizations. The park last conducted a...

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Mar 12, 2021 “The Last Lions of Africa: Stories from the Frontline in the Battle to Save a Species” by Anthony Ham

Posted at 09:06h In Animals in Our World, Book Review, Conservation, Tales of WellBeing - By Andrew Rowan

Asian wild tigers are clinging to existence in relatively few protected areas located mainly in India, Russia, Nepal and Bhutan. The vulnerability of these populations is reflected in the excitement generated by the announcement that the wild tiger population had recently increased from a global...

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Jan 13, 2021 An African Conservation Cinderella Story

Posted at 10:36h In Animals in Our World, Articles, Conservation, Tales of WellBeing - By Guy Pfeffermann

Once upon a time a remarkable lady, Anna Merz, decided to jettison her business and instead dedicate her life to trying to save black rhinos. She tells her story in Rhino at the Brink of Extinction.[1] These were the dark days during the time of...

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