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Dogs being treated by Worldwide Vets | Photo credit: Worldwide Vets

Oct 28, 2024 Recognizing the Impact of Partners and Donors in Ukraine’s Rescue, Relief, and Rebuilding Efforts

Posted at 12:55h In Articles, Companion Animals, Global Dog Campaign, Save The Dogs & Other Animals, Sloboda Zvierat, Street Dog Coalition, Tales of WellBeing, Tigers in America, Worldwide Vets - By Kathleen Rowan CEO, WellBeing International

[caption id="attachment_12440" align="alignleft" width="296"] Helena who escaped Kherson with only her dog Kuzma gets a pet carrier from Save the Dogs. Dated 3/20/22. | Photo credit: Save the Dogs & Other Animals.[/caption]As the Ukraine Rescue, Relief, and Rebuild (U3R) coalition prepares for another year of...

Tigers relaxing | Video credit: cgtoolbox

Jan 23, 2024 Las Vegas’ Last Tiger Show

Posted at 09:55h In Animal Sentience, Animal Well-being, Articles, Public Awareness/Attitudes, Tales of WellBeing, Tigers in America, Wild Animals - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil and Kathleen Rowan CEO, WellBeing International

In 2017, the Ringling Bros and Barnum and Bailey Circus closed down, reportedly because of declining attendance. However, the circus had also been a target of escalating protests by animal advocates. Shows involving wild animals in Las Vegas have also been under attack by animal...

Five of the rescued lions waiting for a snack at the Wild Animal Sanctuary in Colorado | Photo credit: Wild Animal Sanctuary

Dec 21, 2022 The Long Journey Home for the Holidays

Posted at 15:54h In Animal Well-being, Articles, Tales of WellBeing, Tigers in America, Ukraine Rescue, Wild Animals - By Kathleen Rowan and Andrew Rowan

Many African cultures believe it takes a community to raise a child. It also takes a community of people, organizations, and supporters to rescue eleven lions from Ukraine and bring them to their forever homes for the holidays. The end-of-year holidays are traditionally a time...

Feb 14, 2022 Saving Tigers in America: Part 3

Posted at 09:37h In Articles, Public Awareness/Attitudes, Tales of WellBeing, Tigers in America, Wild Animals - By Andrew Rowan and Kathleen Rowan

The first two parts in WellBeing International’s series on saving tigers recounted just how America arrived at a situation where it had twice as many captive tigers as wild tigers in the world (Part 1) and who owned or housed those captive tigers (Part 2)....

Jan 17, 2022 Saving Tigers in America: Part 2

Posted at 09:44h In Animal Well-being, Articles, Public Awareness/Attitudes, Tales of WellBeing, Tigers in America, Wild Animals - By Andrew Rowan and Kathleen Rowan

Tigers, Tigers Everywhere. The USA Tiger Sanctuary Challenge As previously reported in WellBeing International's Saving Tigers in America Part 1, the number of tigers held in the United States of America (USA) began to increase in the 1980s, driven primarily by the profit motive of entertainment...

Sumatran tiger | Photo credit: ondrejprosicky

Dec 16, 2021 Saving Tigers in America – Part 1

Posted at 11:59h In Animal Well-being, Articles, Tales of WellBeing, Tigers in America, Wild Animals, Wildlife on Land - By Andrew Rowan

There are somewhere between 5,000 and 10,000 tigers in private hands in America today – one estimate is that there are 7,000 privately held tigers or around twice as many as the total population of wild tigers (approximately 3,900) in the world today. None of...

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