Animal Well-being Archives

Octopus vulgaris | Photo credit: TheSp4N1SH

May 02, 2022 UK Passes Its Own Animal Sentience Act After Leaving the EU

Posted at 16:34h In Animal Sentience, Animal Well-being, Animals, Articles, Ethics, Regulation, Law, Letter from the President, Public Awareness/Attitudes, WellBeing News - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

When the UK (United Kingdom) voted to leave the European Union (EU), one of the consequences would be the loss of legislation on various issues covered in existing EU laws. The UK government had to pass new laws covering the many items in EU legislation...

Apr 18, 2022 Snow Leopards – The High Mountain Ghosts of Asia

Posted at 12:14h In Animal Well-being, Articles, Tales of WellBeing, Wild Animals - By Andrew Rowan

The mountain ranges north of India – the Himalayas, Hindu Kush, and the Karakoram- have attracted adventurers and children's imaginations for centuries. Rudyard Kipling set his story of The Man who would be King in these ranges, and Huston used the Kipling story for his...

Mar 31, 2022 Living with Lions

Posted at 14:12h In Animal Well-being, Articles, Letter from the President, WellBeing News, Wild Animals - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

Lions face many challenges in the modern world. We have written about lion breeding and conservation and lion trophy hunting in previous WellBeing News posts. But lions also suffer the consequences of human-wildlife conflict, and many are poisoned or killed by exasperated livestock owners when...

Mar 14, 2022 The Magic of Being Among Gorillas in Rwanda

Posted at 09:45h In Animal Sentience, Animal Well-being, Articles, Tales of WellBeing, Wild Animals - By Eric "Rick" Bernthal

It was to be the trip of a lifetime. For decades, I’d imagined how thrilling it would be to walk among the Mountain Gorillas in their natural habitat. I’d been on several safaris elsewhere in Africa. Those were amazing, transformational experiences, yet there were still...

Mar 13, 2022 Lost Dog Syndrome

Posted at 10:46h In Animal Well-being, Articles, Companion Animals, Tales of WellBeing - By Dave Pauli

One of my special projects is catching uncatchable dogs! These are dogs that have been lost after a car accident, on a mountain hike, or as a new adoptee that did not know the adopter intended to provide them a forever home. After such dogs...

Mar 02, 2022 Wolves Revisited

Posted at 17:44h In Animal Well-being, Articles, WellBeing News, Wild Animals - By Andrew Rowan

In the January 2022 WellBeing News, we wrote about the proposed wolf hunt in Norway. We mentioned that there had been a court injunction barring the Norwegian Government from issuing permits to shoot 51 of the estimated 80 wolves in the country – an estimated...

Homeless dogs | Photo credit: Blue Cross of India

Mar 02, 2022 Humane Management of Global Dogs

Posted at 17:42h In Animal Well-being, Articles, Companion Animals, Global Dog Campaign, WellBeing News - By Andrew Rowan

In 2000, international animal protection organizations were spending around $110 million annually on global animal protection, with perhaps 10-20% of that total going to dog projects. By 2020, these groups were spending around $400 million globally on animal protection, with approximately $50 million spent on...

Jan 31, 2022 Human-Wolf Conflict and Wolf Protection

Posted at 12:08h In Animal Well-being, Articles, Letter from the President, Sustainability/Biodiversity, WellBeing News, Wild Animals - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

While there may be as many as one billion domestic dogs in the world today, estimates of the global population of grey wolves (from whom domestic dogs evolved) put the number at a paltry 200,000-250,000. Once, there were an estimated 2 million wolves in North...

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...

Jan 17, 2022 Animal Sentience: Moving Forward

Posted at 09:38h In Animal Sentience, Animal Well-being, Animals, Articles, Ethics, Regulation, Law, Public Awareness/Attitudes, Tales of WellBeing - By Andrew Rowan

In October last year, WellBeing International organized two webinars on animal sentience – specifically on the question of invertebrate sentience – as part of a project funded by the Centre for Effective Altruism. We were surprised by the level of interest in the topic. In...

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