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Jun 15, 2021 How to Save our Planet: An 8-minute thought-provoking video from the World Wildlife Fund

Posted at 18:18h In Animal Well-being, Articles, Environment Well-being, Human Well-being, Oceans, Public Awareness/Attitudes, Tales of WellBeing - By Andrew Rowan

This video is worth watching simply to feast on the photographs and video images from around the world. The images are stunning, but they are freighted with warnings and eventually with an outline of specific goals that the video argues could help humans change the...

May 10, 2021 The Dasgupta Review and the Economics of Biodiversity

Posted at 10:40h In Articles, Environment Well-being, Public Awareness/Attitudes, Sustainability/Biodiversity, WellBeing News - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

Every now and again, a publication or report comes along that changes how we think about life. In the animal space, Ruth Harrison’s Animal Machines (1964) was such a publication. In the environmental space, Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring (1962) and the Club of Rome’s Limits...

Dec 29, 2020 The Development of Well-being Policy Initiatives

Posted at 10:35h In Articles, Human Well-being, One Health, Public Awareness/Attitudes, WellBeing News - By Kathleen Rowan CEO, WellBeing International

Over the last twenty years (that is, this century), there has been an explosion of interest in measuring “happiness” and “subjective well-being.” These measurements are beginning to be used in the development of public policy. Bhutan is commonly regarded as a leader in the field,...

Dec 07, 2020 A Changing Paradigm for Global Engagement

Posted at 09:20h In Articles, Human Well-being, Public Awareness/Attitudes, WellBeing News - By Kathleen Rowan CEO, WellBeing International

The global growth of the number of internet users is remarkable. According to Internet World Stats, 63.2% of the world’s population used the internet as of October 2020. If children aged 0-4 are removed from the calculation, that percentage increases to 69.3%. If children aged...

Children of Kampala, Uganda | Photo credit: AnjoKanFotografie

Apr 15, 2020 Everyone is a Potential Solution

Posted at 13:13h In Articles, Human Well-being, Public Awareness/Attitudes, Tales of WellBeing, Well-being - By Julian Hattem

“The bad news is that everyone is a potential victim / But the good news is that everyone is a potential solution.”So begins a recent song from Ugandan reggae singer-turned-lawmaker Bobi Wine, who has spent years singing about urban poverty and injustice. The new song,...

Mar 28, 2020 The State of Well-Being

Posted at 09:48h In Articles, Letter from the President, Public Awareness/Attitudes, Resources, Well-being, WellBeing News - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

In February 2019, Wellbeing News carried an article discussing ideas relating to the state of well-being of People, Animals and the Environment. This article was followed by an item on the United Nations’ World Happiness Report in Tales of WellBeing. The World Happiness Report is issued...

Oct 29, 2019 Global Animal Protection

Posted at 10:06h In Animals, Articles, Letter from the President, Public Awareness/Attitudes, Resources, WellBeing News, Wildlife on Land - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

September and October are traditionally heavy conference months across the world and that is true in the animal protection space as well. In the past seven weeks, WellBeing International has attended and spoken at five conferences in Addis Ababa, Cape Town, Mombasa, Sydney and Dalian...

Youth Climate Strike | Photo credit: PEEL

Oct 04, 2019 Climate Change, Youth Activism, Academe and the Teach-In Movement

Posted at 08:55h In Articles, Ethics, Regulation, Law, Public Awareness/Attitudes, Tales of WellBeing - By Ingrid Lesemann

During the week of September 23, 2019, six million people, young and old, across the globe took to the streets demanding urgent action on Climate Change. Meanwhile, institutional world leaders continue to “fiddle” while catastrophic change looms over the globe.On the topic of Climate Change,...

Sep 13, 2019 Attitudes to Wildlife

Posted at 07:33h In Articles, Public Awareness/Attitudes, WellBeing News, Wildlife on Land - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

Dr. Stephen Kellert of the Yale School of Forestry performed some of the first large scale assessments of American attitudes to wildlife in the 1970s. He generated a set of attitudes/values and estimated the proportion of Americans strongly oriented toward a particular value. For example...

Apr 28, 2019 Role of Zoos & Aquaria in the 21st Century

Posted at 10:13h In Articles, Letter from the President, Public Awareness/Attitudes, WellBeing News, Wildlife in Water, Wildlife on Land - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

In 1995, I was a coauthor with Bob Hoage (then a Public Affairs Officer for the National Zoo in Washington) on the changing animal protection movement and on the evolution and role of zoos and aquaria. Bob contributed the section on zoo evolution and he...

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