Law & Regulations Archive

Sep 19, 2024

Posted at 16:51h In Animal Well-being, Companion Animals - Dogs, Global Dog Campaign, Law & Regulations, Letter from the President, Public Awareness/Attitudes - By and

ChallengeOn July 30, 2024, the Turkish parliament voted 275 to 224 to pass a law directing municipalities to remove homeless dogs from the streets and place them in shelters for adoption. The government estimates there are around 4 million homeless dogs in Turkey. At the...

Sep 19, 2024

Posted at 14:18h In Climate, Environment Well-being, Law & Regulations, WellBeing News - By

Multiple organizations, including the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), are actively monitoring and documenting the increase in climate-related legal cases in the 21st century. The Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia University, established in 2009, maintains a global database of climate litigation. It...

Jul 24, 2024

Posted at 13:43h In Articles, Environment Well-being, Law & Regulations, Public Awareness/Attitudes, Tales of WellBeing, Wildlife - By

The Wilderness Act was signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson on September 3, 1964. The USA system of wilderness areas now includes over 800 areas covering more than 110 million acres. Currently, all but six states—Connecticut, Delaware, Iowa, Kansas, Maryland, and Rhode Island—have...

Jan 18, 2023

Posted at 11:54h In Animal Well-being, Articles, Companion Animals - Cats, Law & Regulations, Public Awareness/Attitudes, Tales of WellBeing - By and

In 2015, the Australian government pledged to reduce the feral cat population in the country by one-third (about 2 million cats) by 2020. Reportedly, just over 200,000 feral cats were killed in the first year after the plan was announced, mostly poisoned with 1080 in...

Nov 10, 2022

Posted at 18:25h In Animal Sentience, Animals in Our World, Articles, Environment Well-being, Environment, Sustainability & Climate, Law & Regulations, WellBeing News - By

The Nexus between Animal Welfare, the Environment, and Sustainable Development was the focus of a Resolution (sponsored by six African states and Pakistan) passed by consensus at the Fifth United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA-5) in March of 2022. The Resolution requested the United Nations Environment...

Nov 10, 2022

Posted at 16:44h In Environment Well-being, Environment, Sustainability & Climate, Law & Regulations, Letter from the President, WellBeing News - By and

Under the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the 27th Conference of the Parties (COP27) opened in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, on November 6 and runs through the 18th. World leaders, climate campaigners, and climate stakeholders are gathered amid challenging world economic dynamics,...

Aug 24, 2022

Posted at 11:30h In Animals in Our World, Articles, Education: Environment, Environment, Sustainability & Climate, Law & Regulations, Well-being, WellBeing News - By

With wildlife and biodiversity in an unprecedented crisis, pressure weighs heavily on the UN's Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), a multilateral environmental treaty that went into effect in 1993.In December 2022, the CBD's fifteenth Conference of Parties (COP15) will convene in Montreal to adopt an...

May 02, 2022

Posted at 16:34h In Animal Sentience, Animal Well-being, Animals in Our World, Articles, Law & Regulations, Letter from the President, Public Awareness/Attitudes, WellBeing News - By

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

Posted at 09:38h In Animal Sentience, Animal Well-being, Animals in Our World, Articles, Law & Regulations, Public Awareness/Attitudes, Tales of WellBeing - By

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...

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