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Sep 19, 2024 Vultures in India & Bats in USA: Impact on Animal Welfare & Human Health

Posted at 15:31h In Articles, Public Awareness/Attitudes, Sustainability/Biodiversity, Well-being, WellBeing News, Wild Animals - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

A report by Frank and Sudarshan, ecological economists at the University of Chicago, provides an excellent example of how human and environmental well-being is connected to the well-being of animals – in this case, to the health of the vulture population in India. Ecological economics,...

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Sep 19, 2024 Rising Climate Litigation: Holding Governments & Corporations Accountable

Posted at 14:18h In Climate Change, Environment Well-being, Ethics, Regulation, Law, WellBeing News - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

Multiple organizations, including the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), are actively monitoring and documenting the increase in climate-related legal cases in the 21st century. The Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia University, established in 2009, maintains a global database of climate litigation. It...

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Jul 08, 2024 Australian Cats: Making a Difference

Posted at 10:17h In Animal Well-being, Articles, Companion Animals, WellBeing News - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

The January 2023 issue of WellBeing News included an article on the humane management of outdoor cats in Australian urban and periurban areas by the Australian Pet Welfare Foundation (APWF). The foundation was founded in 2011 by Dr. Jacquie Rand and three colleagues to advocate...

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Jul 08, 2024 Climate, Health and Dengue

Posted at 10:06h In Articles, Climate Change, Environment Well-being, Human Well-being, WellBeing News, Wild Animals - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil and Kathleen Rowan CEO, WellBeing International

Impact of Climate on Human HealthOn April 5, 2024, the World Bank released a brief on the impact of climate change on human health. According to the report, a warmer climate could result in at least 21 million additional deaths by 2025 due to five...

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Jun 10, 2024 Nature and Health, A Walk in the Park

Posted at 13:31h In Articles, Human Well-being, Public Awareness/Attitudes, WellBeing News - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

The Covid pandemic had a widespread social impact in addition to its effects on public health. For example, in the Washington, DC area, home buyers were focused on homes in the city pre-COVID, and the Washington suburban real estate market was in the doldrums. However,...

Lists and reports from World Animal Protection and American League Defense Fund

Jun 10, 2024 Do Lists Improve Animal Protection?

Posted at 13:31h In Animal Well-being, Animals, Articles, Public Awareness/Attitudes, WellBeing News - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

It has been suggested that humans should be categorized as the species Homo classification rather than Homo sapiens because we are so attracted to making lists and developing categories to simplify and organize the world around us. For example, journalists recognize that the audience will...

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May 08, 2024 Global Trees and Climate Change

Posted at 17:06h In Articles, Climate Change, Environment Well-being, Sustainability/Biodiversity, WellBeing News - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil and Kathleen Rowan CEO, WellBeing International

As a graduate student at Yale University School of Forestry, Thomas Crowther was intrigued by a question his roommate was asked: how many trees were on Earth? While his roommate didn't see the significance of the question, Crowther took up the challenge of using a...

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May 08, 2024 Human-Animal Interactions and Edibility?

Posted at 17:01h In Articles, Companion Animals, Well-being, WellBeing News - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

In 1964, a provocative essay was published by British social anthropologist Edmund Leach in the proceedings of the 17th International Congress of Psychology. The organizer of the congress, Eric Lenneberg, commented that he used the occasion to invite outstanding scientists to discuss the phenomenon of...

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Apr 04, 2024 The Latest Australian “Threat Abatement Plan” for Cats

Posted at 20:07h In Articles, Companion Animals, Land Management, WellBeing News, Wild Animals - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

Following the release on September 4, 2023, of a report by IPBES on the adverse impact of invasive alien species on global biodiversity, the Australian Government announced that it was again “declaring war” on cats (the Government declared war on cats in 2015, pledging to...

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Apr 04, 2024 Roadkill: Citizen Science at Work

Posted at 20:03h In Articles, Public Awareness/Attitudes, WellBeing News, Wild Animals - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

In 1992, Brewster Bartlett, a science teacher at Pinkerton Academy in New Hampshire, started a citizen science project encouraging his students to use email. Driving back to the school one day, he passed a dead skunk on the side of the road. He decided that...

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