On January 27, 2025, the South African Department of Forestry, Fisheries and Environment (DFFE) gazetted (that is, opened for formal public comment) a new report on the management of elephants in the country entitled the National Elephant Heritage Strategy. According to the preamble, this draft...
Over the past seventy-eight years, my reflections on the world have become more organized. Unsurprisingly, my reflections align closely with WellBeing International's six main program areas: Animals in Conflict, Democratizing Information, Animal Sentience, Global Awareness, the Global Dog Campaign, and the Feel Better campaign. The...
Refresher and Context The 29th Conference of the Parties (COP29) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) took place in Baku, Azerbaijan, from November 11 to November 22, 2024. A UN "Convention" is an international treaty or agreement among countries to tackle a...
Video Credit: Sven Ole Brandt, ShutterstockRecent news articles have highlighted concerns about bird flu following a report of human infections from Colorado and Michigan. A study by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) randomly sampled 115 individuals working in dairies. The results showed that 7%...
WellBeing News has published three articles on the changing attitudes towards wolves and the conflicts arising from wolf management in North America: The Wolf Pendulum in the United States, May 10, 2021, Human-Wolf Conflict and Wolf Protection, January 31, 2022, and Wolves Revisited, March 2,...
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...
On Monday, June 17, 2024, 20 out of the 27 countries in the European Union (EU) voted to adopt the world's first Nature Restoration Law. The law passed with a slim majority, as Leonore Gewessler, the Austrian Minister for Climate Action, decided at the last...
In 1945, Vannevar Bush, a key figure in the history of scientific research, sent a report to President Truman, Science- the endless frontier, advocating for an expansion of Federal funding of basic research and support for students seeking a college education. The committee advising Bush...
WellBeing International has published four articles on the Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza Virus (HPAIV) in the past fourteen months. Science has published seven news stories on bird flu this year. The most recent story (May 1, 2024) was titled “Scientists Call New Measures to Control...
In a critical step towards global sustainability, the United Nations (UN) adopted seventeen Sustainable Development Goals(SDGs) in 2015. SDG12 addressed consumption and production. Its third indicator target (SDG 12.3) focused on food waste and loss. The UN set a target of halving food waste by...
