Aug 23, 2020 Individual Choices and Global Well-being
...additional years of life free of major chronic disease. Those extra disease-free years certainly seem be well worth the effort. Extra Years of Disease-Free Life Maintained 4 of 5 Healthy...
Oct 15, 2020 The Homeless and their Pets
...veterinary initiatives, both in North America and the UK, that provide free health services for the pets of the homeless. For example, Dr. Jon Geller’s organization, the Street Dog Coalition,...
Sep 29, 2023 Elephant Care and Welfare in Southeast Asia Today: Part 3
Posted at 16:34hin Animal Sentience, Articles, Sustainability/Biodiversity, Tales of WellBeing, Wild Animals
...guideline for elephant welfare and include “freedom from hunger and thirst, freedom from discomfort, freedom from pain, injury, and diseases, freedom to express (most) normal behavior, and freedom from fear...
Jun 19, 2022 New Technology, Better Science, and Fewer Animals
Posted at 12:46hin Animal Sentience, Animal Well-being, Articles, Laboratory Animals, Tales of WellBeing
...the need for alternatives in their advocacy materials. For example, the British organization FRAME launched an abstract journal, Alternatives to Laboratory Animals (ATLA Abstracts), in 1974. Professor DH Smyth titled...
Dec 17, 2019 The Big Fix in Northern Uganda
...Project combines trauma counseling with instruction on how to create loving bonds with dogs. Comfort Dog Guardians are taught how to feed, care and communicate with dogs rescued and rehabilitated...
Apr 17, 2024 Book Review: The Life of Pei by Pei Feng Su
...(Originally “ActAsia for Animals”) to educate children, consumers, and professionals in Asian societies “to promote kindness to and compassion for people, animals, and the environment.” With Pei’s leadership, ACTAsia teaches...
Mar 04, 2024 Children Observing Violence and Public Health Outcomes
Posted at 12:00hin Animal Well-being, Animals, Articles, Human Well-being, Letter from the President, Public Awareness/Attitudes
...to protection of children from experiencing all forms of violence. However, demonstrating the harmful effect of children observing violence has been challenging. For example, a 2023 study examines why some...
Dec 29, 2020 WBI’s Core Principles and 2020 Review
...to the world and its inhabitants. For example, a recent article in WellBeing News, reports a significant decline in the number of sea turtle nesting populations in Hawaii since the...
Apr 07, 2022 Tigers in America®
Posted at 10:52h
...Katrina disaster when people in New Orleans asked for assistance with their companion animals. The tragedy in Ukraine has also produced stories of people rescuing their pets and helping to...