Sustainability/Biodiversity Archive

Jun 28, 2021

Posted at 13:49h In Animal Well-being, Articles, Sustainability/Biodiversity, WellBeing News, Wild Animals - By

South Africa occupies an ecologically strategic position in the world. Like China, it has rich biodiversity and has been building its reputation as a favorite wildlife tourist destination. But it has also attracted its share of wildlife traders, poachers, and trophy hunters[1]. South Africa’s own...

Jun 28, 2021

Posted at 13:42h In Animals, Articles, Sustainability/Biodiversity, Well-being, WellBeing News - By

How important is global biodiversity and the interactions and interdependencies of all life for the well-being of people, animals and the environment? Do these interdependencies among all life forms lead to the logical conclusion that “biodiversity” is important (or even essential) to understand and protect?...

May 10, 2021

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

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...

Feb 26, 2021

Posted at 08:57h In Articles, Environment Well-being, Land Management, Letter from the President, Sustainability/Biodiversity, WellBeing News - By

This past month, the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) issued a 168-page publication entitled Making Peace with Nature. The UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, comments in a Foreword that “Humanity is waging war on nature” and “Making peace with nature is the defining task of the...

Nov 02, 2020

Posted at 14:02h In Articles, Environment Well-being, Letter from the President, Population, Resources, Sustainability/Biodiversity, WellBeing News - By

A relatively recent saying, attributed to many different people, is that “prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.”  In contrast, Peter Drucker, the global management guru, is quoted as saying that “the best way to predict the future is to create it.” ...

Nov 02, 2020

Posted at 13:50h In Articles, Environment Well-being, Oceans, Sustainability/Biodiversity, WellBeing News - By

An earlier issue of WellBeing News explored the shifting historical baselines phenomenon. This phenomenon illustrates the tendency of ecologists to use recent wildlife population numbers as the baseline for their studies, even though the recent wildlife population may be much lower than the population 50...

Aug 25, 2020

Posted at 18:28h In Animals, Articles, Land Management, Letter from the President, Sustainability/Biodiversity, WellBeing News, Wildlife on Land - By

The UN World Tourism Agency published a report in 2015 on the importance of wildlife tourism to national economies in Africa. About half of global wildlife tourism involves a visit to an African country, resulting in 6 million tourists a year visiting Sub-Saharan Africa (about...

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