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Sep 30, 2020 WellBeing International Studies Repository – Providing Access to Useful Data and Important Studies

Posted at 13:56h In Animal Well-being, Articles, Education, Environment Well-being, Human Well-being, Letter from the President, One Health, WBI Studies Respository, WellBeing News - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

In 2020, there were reportedly over 5 billion unique mobile phone users worldwide (two-thirds of the world’s total population). Of these, 2.9 billion are using smartphones. These numbers translate to the growing availability of an extraordinary global marketplace for ideas and influence. Every smartphone user...

Photos of Shila and Desi and their babies.

Sep 16, 2020 Two Rehabilitated and Released Orangutans Observed with Babies in Indonesia

Posted at 18:00h In Animal Well-being, Animals, Articles, Tales of WellBeing - By Andrew Rowan

Mostly, the news featuring orangutans is very depressing. In just sixteen years (1999-2015), wild Bornean orangutan populations have declined by over 100,000 according to a recent estimate. CITES reports that the Bornean orangutan population (changed to “critically endangered” in 2016) has declined by 86% since...

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Sep 16, 2020 Domestic Abuse Support – Good News for People and their Animals

Posted at 16:08h In Animals, Articles, Companion Animals, One Health, Tales of WellBeing, Well-being - By Kathleen Rowan

When Hurricane Katrina devastated the states of Louisiana and Mississippi, forcing the evacuation of tens of thousands of citizens from New Orleans and other coastal communities, many people with pets chose to stay behind because they could not find anywhere that would allow them to...

Aug 23, 2020 Individual Choices and Global Well-being

Posted at 18:45h In Articles, Human Well-being, One Health, Well-being, WellBeing News - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

WellBeing International is now focusing on the ways that we as individuals can modify our behavior to improve our own health and well-being as well as reducing our impact on the world around us – positively affecting what we have called the PAE Triad (People,...

Happy family walking along a path in the woods

Jun 14, 2020 Contact with Nature Improves Mental Health and Well-Being

Posted at 05:29h In Articles, Human Well-being, One Health, Tales of WellBeing, Well-being - By Alan E. Kazdin, PhD

With the onset and effort to control the coronavirus, many of us are confined to our homes and isolated from our extended family and social and work contacts that are so central to our lives. For those who have access to the internet and social...

Apr 30, 2020 Sustainable Development & Trophy Hunting

Posted at 07:54h In Animal Well-being, Articles, Letter from the President, Sustainability/Biodiversity, WellBeing News, Wild Animals - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

Sustainability has become a popular term encompassing the notion that we need to promote and pursue policies that will allow future generations of humans to live and benefit from the wealth provided by the Earth. In 2015, the United Nations (UN) adopted the 2030 Agenda...

Apr 16, 2020 Companion Animals and Mental Health

Posted at 09:30h In Animals, Articles, Companion Animals, Tales of WellBeing, Well-being - By Alan E. Kazdin, PhD

Introduction to Promoting Well-Being: Human-Animal Interaction to Improve Mental and Physical Health and the Quality of Life by Alan E. Kazdin, PhD by Andrew Rowan, DPhilAs the world negotiates its interactions with and responses to an emergent coronavirus, it seems like an appropriate time for WBI...

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...

Mar 13, 2020 The Case for Living Connected to Place in 2020

Posted at 05:55h In Articles, Human Well-being, One Health, Tales of WellBeing, Well-being - By Matt Biggar, PhD

I remember seeing a quote some years ago that distilled the problems we face as a human society down to one fundamental reason - viewing other people and other species as less than ourselves. I’ve continued to think about this as the harm we cause our...

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