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Mar 31, 2022 Living with Lions

Posted at 14:12h In Animals in Our World, Articles, Letter from the President, WellBeing News, Wild Animals on Land - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

Lions face many challenges in the modern world. We have written about lion breeding and conservation and lion trophy hunting in previous WellBeing News posts. But lions also suffer the consequences of human-wildlife conflict, and many are poisoned or killed by exasperated livestock owners when...

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Mar 31, 2022 Tourism in the Arctic: A Catalyst for Good or Bad?

Posted at 02:00h In Articles, Global Awareness, PAE Well-being, WellBeing News - By Laura Gosse

The Arctic, a region extending from the North Pole into Canada, Greenland, the Faroe Islands, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Russia, Sweden, and the United States, has experienced global warming at twice the rate of the rest of the planet.  The likely cause of such higher temperatures?...

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Mar 14, 2022 The Magic of Being Among Gorillas in Rwanda

Posted at 09:45h In Animals in Our World, Articles, Human-Animal Interaction, Tales of WellBeing - By Eric "Rick" Bernthal

It was to be the trip of a lifetime. For decades, I’d imagined how thrilling it would be to walk among the Mountain Gorillas in their natural habitat. I’d been on several safaris elsewhere in Africa. Those were amazing, transformational experiences, yet there were still...

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Mar 13, 2022 Lost Dog Syndrome

Posted at 10:46h In Animals in Our World, Articles, Companion Animals - Dogs, Tales of WellBeing - By Dave Pauli

One of my special projects is catching uncatchable dogs! These are dogs that have been lost after a car accident, on a mountain hike, or as a new adoptee that did not know the adopter intended to provide them a forever home. After such dogs...

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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...

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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...

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Feb 14, 2022 Saving Tigers in America: Part 3

Posted at 09:37h In Animals in Our World, Articles, Rescue, Relief & Rebuild, Tales of WellBeing, Tigers in America - By Andrew Rowan and Kathleen Rowan

The first two parts in WellBeing International’s series on saving tigers recounted just how America arrived at a situation where it had twice as many captive tigers as wild tigers in the world (Part 1) and who owned or housed those captive tigers (Part 2)....

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Feb 14, 2022 Nature – A Prescription for Subjective Well-being

Posted at 09:14h In Articles, Feel Better, People Well-being, Tales of WellBeing - By Andrew Rowan

In the June 2020 Tales of WellBeing, Professor Alan Kazdin of Yale contributed an article promoting contact with nature to improve mental health. There is a growing academic literature on the importance of nature in promoting human subjective well-being. For example, in 2019, a paper...

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Feb 14, 2022 The Animal Bride – A Valentine’s Day Tale?

Posted at 09:10h In Articles, Global Awareness, Human-Animal Interaction, Tales of WellBeing - By Dr. Boria Sax

A finely dressed young woman on a swing ascending toward the forest canopy kicks one leg, tossing her shoe far away. This is a deliberate act, not an accident. Her expression is one of careful concentration. Her eyes are fixed on the shoe, which she...

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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...

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