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Mar 03, 2022 Plastic Pollution – Challenge for Life Below Water and Life on Land

Posted at 10:32h In Global Awareness, Letter from the President, WellBeing News, Wild Animals in Water - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil and Kathleen Rowan CEO, WellBeing International

[caption id="attachment_11965" align="alignright" width="300"] Endangered Hawksbill Sea Turtle caught in a discarded net[/caption] The Challenge The plastics revolution launched in the 1950s has led to the cumulative production of 8,300 million tonnes (MT) of plastic products and vast quantities of plastic pollution (6,300 MT). According to a...

Mar 02, 2022 Wolves Revisited

Posted at 17:44h In Animals in Our World, Articles, WellBeing News, Wild Animals on Land - 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 Animals in Our World, Articles, Management, 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 Protecting the Oceans: Tristan Case Study

Posted at 12:32h In Articles, Global Awareness, Ocean Protection, WellBeing News - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

The Tristan da Cunha archipelago, a small group of volcanic islands in the middle of the South Atlantic, is characterized by the surrounding, largely undisturbed, temperate marine ecosystem. The largest island, Tristan, at 98 km2, has a population of approximately 260 permanent inhabitants and is...

Jan 31, 2022 Social Progress Index

Posted at 12:26h In Articles, Global Awareness, People Well-being, WellBeing News - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

WellBeing News has carried several stories about global happiness (e.g., World Happiness Report), subjective well-being, and happiness research centers. Happiness (and subjective well-being) research is booming, but these are not the only ways to measure global well-being. The Social Progress Imperative is a US-based non-profit...

Jan 31, 2022 Human-Wolf Conflict and Wolf Protection

Posted at 12:08h In Animals in Our World, Articles, Human-Animal Interaction, Letter from the President, WellBeing News - 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...

Father and son | Photo credit: Avalon_Studio

Dec 31, 2021 Back to the Future and a Sustainable World

Posted at 12:56h In Articles, Global Awareness, Letter from the President, PAE Well-being, WellBeing News - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

As we bid goodbye to 2021, the world continues its struggles with Covid-19 and its new variants. It is only natural to focus on the present and tempting to reflect on periods in the past – a concept encapsulated in the "back to the future"...

Dec 31, 2021 Replacing Laboratory Animals in Safety Testing

Posted at 11:37h In Animals in Our World, Articles, Research Animals, WellBeing News - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

In 1993, the NIH Revitalization Act included language, supported by corporations and animal advocates, that authorized a new program to develop and validate toxicity tests that would replace and reduce the use of laboratory animals. Seven years later, that 1993 Act led to the passage...

Mother & daughter | photo credit: Professional Studio Images

Dec 31, 2021 Well-being Centers and Global Happiness

Posted at 11:28h In Feel Better, People Well-being, WellBeing News - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

Several well-being and happiness research centers and policy units have been established in the last decade at major universities. For example, Harvard’s School of Public Health established the Lee Kum Sheung Center for Health and Happiness in 2016, while Oxford University launched its Wellbeing Research...

Nov 29, 2021 Global Dog Campaign Case Studies: Kabul, Afghanistan; Chennai, India; Heredia, Costa Rica

Posted at 09:56h In AHPPA (Asociación Humanitaria para la Protección Animal), Animals in Our World, Articles, BCI (Blue Cross of India), Companion Animals - Dogs, Mayhew Afghanistan, WellBeing News - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

Kabul, AfghanistanAfghanistan recently experienced a change in government, leading to chaotic scenes at Kabul airport as countries evacuated their personnel and individual Afghan citizens sought to leave the country. Dogs were also caught up in this chaos as some animal advocates sought, mostly unsuccessfully, to...

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