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May 02, 2022 UK Passes Its Own Animal Sentience Act After Leaving the EU

Posted at 16:34h In Animal Sentience, Animal Well-being, Animals, Articles, Ethics, Regulation, Law, Letter from the President, Public Awareness/Attitudes, WellBeing News - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

When the UK (United Kingdom) voted to leave the European Union (EU), one of the consequences would be the loss of legislation on various issues covered in existing EU laws. The UK government had to pass new laws covering the many items in EU legislation...

Jan 17, 2022 Animal Sentience: Moving Forward

Posted at 09:38h In Animal Sentience, Animal Well-being, Animals, Articles, Ethics, Regulation, Law, Public Awareness/Attitudes, Tales of WellBeing - By Andrew Rowan

In October last year, WellBeing International organized two webinars on animal sentience – specifically on the question of invertebrate sentience – as part of a project funded by the Centre for Effective Altruism. We were surprised by the level of interest in the topic. In...

Aug 17, 2021 Animal Sentience, Public Awareness, and Public Policy

Posted at 11:52h In Animal Sentience, Animal Well-being, Animals, Articles, Ethics, Regulation, Law, Letter from the President, Public Awareness/Attitudes, WellBeing News - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

Over the past fifty years, public concern for animals (and “animal sentience”) has prompted significant changes in public policy in many countries worldwide. It is not yet clear what has driven this concern. There had been a similar increase in public concern for animals in...

Aug 17, 2021 Animal Welfare at the United Nations

Posted at 11:50h In Animal Well-being, Animals, Articles, Ethics, Regulation, Law, Sustainability/Biodiversity, WellBeing News - By Andrew Rowan

In 2018, the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP – headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya) signed a two-year agreement with a Kenyan animal protection group, the Africa Network for Animal Welfare (ANAW – founded in 2006), that included a stipulation that ANAW should organize animal welfare conferences...

May 10, 2021 The Wolf Pendulum in the United States

Posted at 10:30h In Animal Well-being, Articles, Ethics, Regulation, Law, WellBeing News, Wild Animals - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

The Idaho legislature has just sent a bill to Governor Brad Little’s desk that would authorize the killing of up to 90% of Idaho’s estimated 1,500 wolves. This bill represents a swing of the wolf pendulum back to the early part of the 20th century...

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Jan 29, 2021 Drug Company Research and Animal Use

Posted at 11:27h In Articles, Ethics, Regulation, Law, Laboratory Animals, Letter from the President, WellBeing News - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

Over the years, the use of laboratory animals by drug companies and other commercial laboratories has elicited more than its share of criticism. In the late 1970s, animal advocates turned their attention to the testing of cosmetics and personal care products on animals, with particular...

Feb 27, 2020 In Search of Explanations and the Truth

Posted at 07:24h In Articles, Ethics, Regulation, Law, WellBeing News - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

In the search to explain the world around us, there have been occasions where a particular set of observations produces a narrative that appears to provide an elegant explanation of what is happening, even though it might not be entirely accurate. One such story is...

Jan 29, 2020 Australian Bushfires – Hell on Earth for People, but especially for Wildlife

Posted at 07:52h In Articles, Ethics, Regulation, Law, WellBeing News - By Michael Kennedy, AM (Member of the Order of Australia)

The Federal Government in Australia was warned by a group of ex-fire chiefs early in 2019 that the country was facing a potential fire disaster scenario that was in part due to the ongoing and significant effects of climate change. The group asked for a...

Oct 29, 2019 Cape Town Animal Conference, South Africa

Posted at 07:15h In Ethics, Regulation, Law, WellBeing News - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

The second Cape Animal Conference in September was held at the University of Cape Town (UCT) courtesy of a student group, We Are Animals, that allowed the organizers to make use of UCT lecture facilities. The conference “theme” involved an examination of how laws and...

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Oct 04, 2019 Climate Change, Youth Activism, Academe and the Teach-In Movement

Posted at 08:55h In Articles, Ethics, Regulation, Law, Public Awareness/Attitudes, Tales of WellBeing - By Ingrid Lesemann

During the week of September 23, 2019, six million people, young and old, across the globe took to the streets demanding urgent action on Climate Change. Meanwhile, institutional world leaders continue to “fiddle” while catastrophic change looms over the globe.On the topic of Climate Change,...

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