This issue of Tales of WellBeing has two items involving education – both humane and environmental. The “Tale” features the significant impact one individual has had in this arena. Marshall Rinquest is a key part of the success of the Greyton Transition Town project and...
In March of 2019, the First African Conference on Linear Infrastructure and Ecology (ACLIE) was held in South Africa. Our partner organization, the Center for Large Landscape Conservation (CLLC) produced an excellent and eye-opening report for the conference on investments in linear transportation infrastructure (such...
Across the globe, the movement of species and the flow of ecological processes are being interrupted by human development. Natural areas are losing vital connections once used by wildlife to migrate, disperse, mate, feed, and thrive. This ongoing fragmentation is leaving nature susceptible to a...
From 19-22 March of this year, several hundred conservation biologists, activists, economists, lawyers and political scientists convened in the Sultan Nazrin Shah Centre in Worcester College, Oxford to discuss global-scale challenges to wildlife and how the assembled cornucopia of disciplines could help to address and...
When we chose WellBeing International as the name of our new NGO, we had little idea of the extent of the international interest in measuring happiness and well-being across the globe, but we are learning fast. This issue of “Tales” brings another story (this time...
As the global production of plastic items explodes, plastic debris and waste are accumulating across the planet’s oceans. A 20-fold increase in plastic production occurred between 1964 and 2014, and the rate of production continues to increase (see figure: 407 million tonnes in 2015, 302...
Wildlife conservation had its beginning in the United States in the mid-nineteenth century, largely in response to the widespread destruction of wildlife through market hunting. Notable among its early supporters was our 26th president, Theodore Roosevelt (TR), who was almost solely responsible for setting aside...
"WellBeing International (WBI) seeks and implements solutions for people, animals and the environment (PAE). 'Tales of WellBeing' is published monthly and features stories of how people, animals and the environment can enrich the lives of all." Our feature story is brought to us by our...
[caption id="attachment_1667" align="alignleft" width="368"] "Brave Valentina is our CIO (Chief Inspiration Officer) because her fight to survive and the joy of her new beginning touch us deeply and make us think about what is possible for desperate animals around the world."[/caption]No matter how bleak things...
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...
