Partners Archive

Entrance of Blue Cross of India | Photo credit: Blue Cross

Sep 30, 2024 Blue Cross of India: Pioneering Animal Welfare and Rabies Control for 60 Years

Posted at 12:16h In Animal Well-being, Articles, BCI (Blue Cross of India), Companion Animals - Dogs, Public Awareness/Attitudes, Tales of WellBeing - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil and Kathleen Rowan CEO, WellBeing International

In 1959, Captain V. Sundaram, his wife Usha and their son, S. Chinny Krishna (then almost 15 years old), were three of the four founding members of the Animal Aid Association in Madras (now Chennai) in southern India. 1964, the organization was formally registered as...

Jun 18, 2024 Animal Rescue in Costa Rica

Posted at 15:35h In AHPPA (Asociación Humanitaria para la Protección Animal), Animal Well-being, Articles, Companion Animals - Dogs, Global Dog Campaign, Tales of WellBeing - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil and Kathleen Rowan CEO, WellBeing International

In 2015, Costa Rican government agencies brought seized and rescued companion animals from substandard conditions or illegal activities such as dog fighting to the animal shelter near San Jose. The shelter, run by the Asociación Humanitaria Para la Protección Animal (AHPPA), a partner organization in...

Animal Corridors | Credit: Wirestock Creators, Shutterstock

Apr 16, 2023 Exciting Developments for the Connectivity of Wild Landscapes

Posted at 16:33h In Animal Well-being, Articles, CLLC (Center for Large Landscape Conservation), Environment, Sustainability & Climate, Tales of WellBeing, Wildlife - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil and Kathleen Rowan

The Center for Large Landscape Conservation (CLLC), called Climate Conservation initially, was established by veterinarian and conservation biologist Dr. Gary Tabor in Bozeman, Montana, in 2011. WBI was delighted when CLLC agreed to be a WBI partner. Both organizations are building connections and partnerships to...

Nov 29, 2021 Global Dog Campaign Case Studies: Kabul, Afghanistan; Chennai, India; Heredia, Costa Rica

Posted at 09:56h In AHPPA (Asociación Humanitaria para la Protección Animal), Animal Well-being, Animals in Our World, Articles, BCI (Blue Cross of India), Companion Animals - Dogs, Global Dog Campaign, Mayhew Afghanistan, WellBeing News - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

Kabul, AfghanistanAfghanistan recently experienced a change in government, leading to chaotic scenes at Kabul airport as countries evacuated their personnel and individual Afghan citizens sought to leave the country. Dogs were also caught up in this chaos as some animal advocates sought, mostly unsuccessfully, to...

Nov 01, 2021 Roads & Wildlife: Safeguarding Asia’s Rich Biodiversity

Posted at 11:19h In Articles, CLLC (Center for Large Landscape Conservation), WellBeing News, Wildlife - By Christine Gianas Weinheimer

For many of us, wildlife-vehicle collisions are a fact of life. In some areas where roads bisect wildlife habitat, collisions or near misses with large mammals like deer are all too familiar, and countless smaller creatures like turtles and squirrels fall victim to automobiles every...

Collage of photos of Brianna and Lulu | Photo credits: AHPPA

Jun 15, 2021 Brianna and Lulu: A Girl and her Dog

Posted at 17:15h In AHPPA (Asociación Humanitaria para la Protección Animal), Articles, Companion Animals - Dogs, Tales of WellBeing, Well-being - By Kathleen Rowan

The lead photographs for this story show Brianna, 7 years old, with the family’s new dog, Lulu, adopted from the local shelter, Asociacion Humanitaria Para la Proteccion Animal de Costa Rica (AHPPA). According to Brianna’s mother, “Brianna is the faithful lover and defender of animals...

Stray dogs of Pacifica Township in Chennai, India

May 18, 2021 The Stray Dogs of Pacifica Township, Chennai, India

Posted at 10:16h In Animal Well-being, Animals in Our World, Articles, BCI (Blue Cross of India), Companion Animals - Dogs, Tales of WellBeing - By Andrew Rowan

Most of the dogs in India are homeless stray dogs who survive mainly on handouts from people. While the keeping of pet dogs is increasing (almost doubled in the past decade), only around 10% of households have pet dogs (compared to 35% in the US...

Mar 12, 2021 Prani Mitra Award for Dr. S. Chinny Krishna

Posted at 09:06h In Articles, BCI (Blue Cross of India), Tales of WellBeing - By Andrew Rowan

In 1959, Chinny Krishna, then almost fifteen years old, was one of the four founders of the Animal Aid Association in Madras, India (now Chennai). Two of the three other founders were his parents. In 1964, the Animal Aid Association morphed into the Blue Cross...

Puppies | Photo credit: Blue Cross of India

Nov 02, 2020 Counting Dogs

Posted at 14:15h In Animals in Our World, Articles, Companion Animals - Dogs, HIS (Help in Suffering), WellBeing News - By Andrew Rowan

Data on dog numbers and dog well-being will be an important part of evaluating impact of different approaches to dog and human well-being in particular communities. The world currently has somewhere between 800 million and one billion domestic dogs. As such, they are the most...

Jun 11, 2020 Karuna for Corona – Feeding the Homeless Dogs

Posted at 07:46h In Animals in Our World, Articles, BCI (Blue Cross of India), Companion Animals - Dogs, Tales of WellBeing - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

On March 24, the Indian government ordered a national 21-day lockdown as part of its response to the global Covid-19 pandemic. The lockdown has been extended several times and is now projected to last until June 30. This precaution has resulted in significant hardship for...