May 02, 2023 Plastic Waste and the Worldโs Seas
Posted at 15:45hin Letter from the President, Oceans, Public Awareness/Attitudes, Sustainability/Biodiversity, Well-being
Fifty years ago (Feb 10, 1973), Science News published a short article, “Setting sail into a plastic sea.” The story noted that scientists on an oceanographic voyage in the North...
May 30, 2020 Global Dog Populations
Posted at 09:57hin Animals, Articles, Companion Animals, Letter from the President, Population, WellBeing News
...spread out evenly across the landscape – far from it – and are mostly clustered around humans. Therefore, a measure that compares the number of dogs to the number of...
Oct 03, 2022 Measuring Well-Being
...rate the quality of their lives on a 0-10 scale. Extensive research has demonstrated that the standard Subjective well-being measures are valid – that is, the measurements are reliable and...
Feb 26, 2021 Revisiting the Cat Predation Issue
In 2013, a paper in the journal Nature Communications appeared that estimated that cat predation in the United States led to an estimated death of 1.3 – 4.0 billion birds...Aug 23, 2020 Our Campaigns
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...to its mission of seeking solutions for people, animals, and the environment (PAE). WBI’s open “knowledge repository” of curated materials on PAE coupled with a robust website and the effective...
May 30, 2020 IUCN ‘Guidelines for Conserving Connectivity through Ecological Networks and Corridors’
Posted at 04:53hin Articles, CLLC (Center for Large Landscape Conservation), Land Management, One Health, Sustainability/Biodiversity, WellBeing News, Wildlife on Land
...conservation measure, and the Guidelines bring together the most current knowledge and proven practices to lead a new global effort to combat habitat fragmentation and protect intact ecological networks for...
Sep 15, 2021 Michael & Dwight: the Bonded Cat Duo at Annenberg PetSpace
...the nearby El Segundo, had recently lost their orange tabby of 16 years, Skittles, and were looking for a new feline companion to fill the hole in their family. Having...
Sep 13, 2022 Recovering Species from the Threat of Extinction
Posted at 15:11hin Animal Well-being, Articles, Public Awareness/Attitudes, Sustainability/Biodiversity, Tales of WellBeing, Wild Animals
...North America, anchoring an ecosystem with a remarkable concentration of mammals. However, settlers with their cattle competed with bison while new tanning technologies drove demand for hides. In addition, the...
Dec 31, 2021 Back to the Future and a Sustainable World
Posted at 12:56hin Articles, Letter from the President, Public Awareness/Attitudes, Well-being, WellBeing News
...the opening up of new lands, by industrialization, and by agricultural improvements, until a new generation of environmentalists (e.g., the Ehrlichs and The Population Bomb) reignited the issue in the...