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Pelican release by South Florida Wildlife Center

Jun 19, 2022 Wildlife Centers and Living in Harmony with Nature and Pelicans

Posted at 15:38h In Animal Sentience, Articles, Sustainability/Biodiversity, Tales of WellBeing, Well-being, Wild Animals - By Kathleen Rowan CEO, WellBeing International

The Wildlife CenterNestled in a high-density population area and abutting an international airport resides the South Florida Wildlife Center (Center), founded 53 years ago with a mission to rescue, rehabilitate, release and educate. The Center occupies a secluded tree-covered 4.1-acre site with a 1.2-acre "jurisdictional...

Lung on a microchip | Photo credit: Wyss Institute at Harvard University

Jun 19, 2022 New Technology, Better Science, and Fewer Animals

Posted at 12:46h In Animal Sentience, Animal Well-being, Articles, Laboratory Animals, Tales of WellBeing - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

The concept of developing “alternatives” to laboratory animals in biomedical sciences is usually considered to have been launched by the1959 book, Principles of Humane Experimental Technique by William (Bill) Russell and Rex Burch. Russell and Burch did not explicitly use the term “alternatives.” They discussed...

Jun 02, 2022 Wildlife Fertility Control: An Alternative to Lethal Management of Wildlife

Posted at 10:00h In Animal Sentience, Animal Well-being, Articles, WellBeing News, Wild Animals - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

The first international conference on wildlife fertility control was held in Philadelphia in 1987. Subsequently, approximately one such event has been organized every four years (the 9th conference being held 35 years after the first). In 2017 and 2022, the Botstiber Institute for Wildlife Fertility...

Fox and her kits | Credit: Fuchsfilm Helmut Seuetsch

Jun 02, 2022 The Well-Being of Wildlife

Posted at 09:53h In Animal Well-being, Articles, Letter from the President, WellBeing News, Wild Animals - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

The Wild Animal Initiative is a project to improve the well-being of wildlife. The project recognizes that improving the well-being of wildlife is very challenging but is, nonetheless, taking a proactive approach to the issue. Several members of the Initiative were speakers at the recent...

Jun 02, 2022 The UK Badger Cull: “Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics”

Posted at 09:45h In Animal Well-being, Articles, WellBeing International, Wild Animals - By Mark Jones BVSc, MSc (Stir), MSc (UL), MRCVS

In England, so often dubbed a nation of animal lovers, close to 177,000 native badgers, a protected species under UK law, have been shot under license since 2013, ostensibly to control the spread of bovine tuberculosis in cattle.There is no doubt that bovine tuberculosis (bTB)...

Odessa dogs fed by the organization Save the Dogs & Other Animals

May 16, 2022 Ukraine’s Animals Need Your Help

Posted at 08:56h In Animal Well-being, Animals, Articles, Save The Dogs & Other Animals, Tales of WellBeing - By Andrew Rowan

WellBeing International heard yesterday from Gregg Tully, the Country Director of Save the Dogs and other Animals in Romania and a partner in the U3R consortium, who reported the following: “The need for pet food in southern Ukraine has become overwhelming. Many people who fled the country left their pets...

American Pitbull | Photo credit: Every Dog Has A Story

May 02, 2022 Dog Behavior and Aggression

Posted at 16:40h In Animal Well-being, Articles, Companion Animals, Public Awareness/Attitudes, WellBeing News - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

An extensive study of the genetics of dog behavior (including individual dog personality) and appearance (physical traits) has just appeared in the major academic research publication, Science. The research team reviewed the behavior and genes of 2,000 dogs who had had their entire genomes sequenced....

Octopus vulgaris | Photo credit: TheSp4N1SH

May 02, 2022 UK Passes Its Own Animal Sentience Act After Leaving the EU

Posted at 16:34h In Animal Sentience, Animal Well-being, Animals, Articles, Ethics, Regulation, Law, Letter from the President, Public Awareness/Attitudes, WellBeing News - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

When the UK (United Kingdom) voted to leave the European Union (EU), one of the consequences would be the loss of legislation on various issues covered in existing EU laws. The UK government had to pass new laws covering the many items in EU legislation...

May 02, 2022 Land Use & Food Supply

Posted at 16:22h In Articles, Environment Well-being, Farm Animals, Land Management, Public Awareness/Attitudes, WellBeing News - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

Intensive animal agriculture provides increasing amounts of milk and meat (and fish) for human consumption. However, it also consumes many planetary resources and contributes to climate change. Given current trends, it seems almost impossible that we would change our eating habits to reach a point...

Apr 18, 2022 Reflections on Earth Day 2022

Posted at 12:14h In Articles, Environment Well-being, Humane and Environmental Education, Tales of WellBeing - By Dr. Lance Gunderson

A few weeks ago, a few family members and I visited Trinity site in New Mexico. Trinity site is where the first atomic bomb was detonated in July 1945 and is only open to the public twice a year. Other than the black obelisk monument...