Since 2015, the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have served as a framework for a holistic approach to development that recognizes the need to incorporate non-economic measures of growth and human well-being. The SDG guidelines are a bold attempt to accomplish some of the most...
The Third Africa Animal Welfare Conference took place in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia at the beginning of September (the first two were held in Kenya in 2017 and 2018). There were over 200 attendees drawn from all regions of Africa and from eight non-African countries. As...
Dr. Stephen Kellert of the Yale School of Forestry performed some of the first large scale assessments of American attitudes to wildlife in the 1970s. He generated a set of attitudes/values and estimated the proportion of Americans strongly oriented toward a particular value. For example...
The theme of the Third African Animal Welfare conference was the connection between the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and Animal Welfare. Dr. Andrew Rowan was asked to give a presentation that addressed how the SDGs intersected with global animal welfare. There are seventeen SDGs...
This issue of Tales of WellBeing includes an item featuring the story of Coco, a rescued chimpanzee in Guinea, whom I was privileged to meet at the beginning of this century, as well as a series of book suggestions and an interesting graphic that provides...
On July 11, World Population Day, the Margaret Pyke Trust launched the Thriving Together campaign, supported by over 150 organizations (from United Nations (UN) agencies and large NGOs like The Nature Conservancy to smaller organizations such as WellBeing International). The Trust and its partners are...
The world’s wild animals are in serious decline. Humanity has wiped out 60% of wild animal populations since 1970. The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)’s ‘Red List’ classifies a quarter of all mammals, a third of sharks, rays and corals, and 40% of...
Reviewed by: Kathleen Rowan - Nepal is a relatively small country (94 th in total area – about 150,000 sqkm) but it has an extraordinarily diverse fauna and flora (one article claims over one hundred different ecosystems). This is not that hard to imagine when one...
A recent sterilization clinic held in Guapiles by our partner organization served a remarkable woman – 96-year old Ana Julia Espinoza. She walked three kilometers with her three cats to have them sterilized. For the past five years, our partner organization, the Costa Rican shelter Asociacion...
This issue of Tales of WellBeing includes two stories about animals that have had significant impacts on individuals and communities. These two stories (memorials) exemplify the intense bonds that exist between animals and humans and the impact those relationships can have upon the participants. These...
