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Biodiversity | Video credit: Black Box Guild

Aug 24, 2022 United Nations – Convention on Biological Diversity and COP15

Posted at 11:30h In Animals, Articles, Ethics, Regulation, Law, Humane and Environmental Education, Sustainability/Biodiversity, Well-being, WellBeing News - By Adeline Lerambert

With wildlife and biodiversity in an unprecedented crisis, pressure weighs heavily on the UN's Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), a multilateral environmental treaty that went into effect in 1993.In December 2022, the CBD's fifteenth Conference of Parties (COP15) will convene in Montreal to adopt an...

Aug 24, 2022 The United Nations, Animal Welfare and the Environment

Posted at 10:55h In Animal Well-being, Animals, Environment Well-being, Letter from the President, Public Awareness/Attitudes, Sustainability/Biodiversity, WellBeing News - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil and Kathleen Rowan CEO, WellBeing International

IntroductionA sustainable global future requires the world to address the welfare of not only people but animals and the environment. This view is also the founding premise for WellBeing International (WBI). A one-minute video produced by WBI includes the following message. "A responsible caretaker of...

Aug 24, 2022 Pet Dog Supply and Demand in the United States

Posted at 10:53h In Animal Well-being, Articles, Companion Animals, WellBeing News - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

To the surprise of many animal advocates, discussions are taking place this year on whether there may be too few dogs to support demand in the US. The campaign that began in the 1970s to reduce dog over-supply has been very successful. In 1973, approximately...

Jul 27, 2022 Considering Cats

Posted at 14:29h In Animal Well-being, Articles, Companion Animals, Tales of WellBeing - By Andrew Rowan

International Cat Day is celebrated every year on August 8. The day was created in 2002 by the International Fund for Animal Welfare, but the current custodian is the UK-based International Cat Care.WellBeing International (WBI) has published several newsletter articles about cat management. WBI will...

Dogs in Ukraine | Photo credit: Jason Weiss

Jul 27, 2022 How People are Coping with the Ukraine Disaster

Posted at 14:18h In Animal Well-being, Articles, Companion Animals, Human Well-being, Tales of WellBeing, Ukraine Rescue - By Kathleen Rowan

For the ordinary citizen living outside Ukraine and safely divorced from the direct effects of the conflict, the Russian invasion of Ukraine is an event that defies logic and leaves most feeling helpless. A few have taken active steps and volunteered to fight in Ukraine....

Book cover: Happiness – Concept, Measurement, and Promotion by Yew-Kwang Ng

Jul 27, 2022 Happiness – Concept, Measurement, and Promotion by Yew-Kwang Ng

Posted at 12:04h In Book Review, Human Well-being, Tales of WellBeing - By Andrew Rowan

The April 2022 Tales of WellBeing included a review of a book on human happiness written by social psychologist and professional ethicist Dr. Jonathan Haidt. Haidt looked at happiness and how it might be achieved from the perspective of positive psychology. Professor Ng’s new (open...

Jul 05, 2022 One Health for the SDGs but also for Nature and Animals

Posted at 11:29h In Articles, Letter from the President, One Health, Well-being - By Andrew Rowan

Earlier this year, an open-access paper on One Health and the UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) was published (in the CABI One Health journal). The authors (from institutions in the USA, Sweden, and Brazil) noted that human, animal, and environmental health are linked in the...

Monkeypox Virus | Photo credit: BalckJack3D

Jul 05, 2022 Recent Surge in Monkeypox in Non-Endemic Countries: Concern for Public Health?

Posted at 11:29h In Articles, Human Well-being, Public Awareness/Attitudes, WellBeing News - By Satish Kumar Gupta, PhD

As the world learns to live with the current SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, another zoonosis caused by a monkeypox virus (a cousin of smallpox) is appearing in America, Europe, North Africa, the Middle East, and Australia, having spread from its traditional "habitat" in Central and West Africa....

William Hollingsworth "Holly" Whyte (left), during a visit to downtown Chattanooga in 1984. Photo: Chattanooga Venture Records, Chattanooga Public Library

Jul 05, 2022 Cities, Nature and Human Well-being

Posted at 11:29h In Articles, Human Well-being, WellBeing News - By John Hadidian, PhD

Above: William Hollingsworth "Holly" Whyte (left), during a visit to downtown Chattanooga in 1984. Photo credit: Chattanooga Venture Records, Chattanooga Public LibraryWilliam H. Whyte (1917-1999) may be best remembered as the author of The Organization Man. This 1956 bestseller described a corporate America in which,...

Pelican release by South Florida Wildlife Center

Jun 19, 2022 Wildlife Centers and Living in Harmony with Nature and Pelicans

Posted at 15:38h In Animal Sentience, Articles, Sustainability/Biodiversity, Tales of WellBeing, Well-being, Wild Animals - By Kathleen Rowan CEO, WellBeing International

The Wildlife CenterNestled in a high-density population area and abutting an international airport resides the South Florida Wildlife Center (Center), founded 53 years ago with a mission to rescue, rehabilitate, release and educate. The Center occupies a secluded tree-covered 4.1-acre site with a 1.2-acre "jurisdictional...

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