Mar 12, 2021 Paving the Way to Well-being: The First Nationally Recognized Assistance Dogs
...new Assistance Dog called a Service Dog was introduced by Dr. Bonnie Bergin, founder of Canine Companions for Independence in California. When visiting Asia, Dr. Bergin saw a paralyzed man...
Jun 18, 2024 Communicating Animals: A Doctor Dolittle Story
...communication and language. (Aza Raskin of the Earth Species Project metaphorically refers to this as opening the mind’s “aperture”). The workshop provided a captivating insight into animal and plant communication....
May 31, 2019 A Quiet Revolution Replacing the Use of Animals in Research
...produced the breakthrough new therapies that were predicted. In fact, the last two Directors of the National Institutes of Health have both noted the lack of success of the new...
Aug 24, 2022 United Nations – Convention on Biological Diversity and COP15
Posted at 11:30hin Animals, Articles, Ethics, Regulation, Law, Humane and Environmental Education, Sustainability/Biodiversity, Well-being, WellBeing News
...new roadmap should learn from the failures of its predecessor, the unfulfilled 20 Aichi Biodiversity Targets agreed upon in 2010. Despite laudable aspirations, the Aichi targets lacked the resources commensurate...
Sep 16, 2020 Two Rehabilitated and Released Orangutans Observed with Babies in Indonesia
...target. They teamed up with Wildlife SOS in India and Free the Bears in Australia and reached out to the Kalendar community (a community who captured the bears and then...
Jan 09, 2024 A Circular Economy and “Feel Better”
Posted at 10:18hin Education, Land Management, Letter from the President, Public Awareness/Attitudes, Resources, Sustainability/Biodiversity, Well-being
...extraction of new materials. The transition to a circular global economy will require behavior changes by both producers and consumers. Production Reducing human consumption is a complex challenge because product...
Jan 13, 2021 Mangrove Restoration Supports People, Animals and Environment
Posted at 10:33hin Animal Well-being, Articles, Environment Well-being, Human Well-being, Tales of WellBeing
...carbon” credits that provide hard cash to support community projects and microfinance local projects. To date, $57,000 dollars in interest-free loans has been disbursed to 180 local women, 68 of...
Feb 12, 2021 The Origin of the People and Dogs’ 20,000-Year Love Affair
...proto-dogs. A new paper1 examining this idea (Siberia as the origin of the people-dog relationship) has been published recently and commented upon in the news section of Science in an...