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Nov 29, 2021 Global Dog Campaign Case Studies: Kabul, Afghanistan; Chennai, India; Heredia, Costa Rica

Posted at 09:56h In AHPPA (Asociación Humanitaria para la Protección Animal), Animals in Our World, Articles, BCI (Blue Cross of India), Companion Animals - Dogs, Mayhew Afghanistan, WellBeing News - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

Kabul, Afghanistan Afghanistan recently experienced a change in government, leading to chaotic scenes at Kabul airport as countries evacuated their personnel and individual Afghan citizens sought to leave the country. Dogs were also caught up in this chaos as some animal advocates sought, mostly unsuccessfully, to...

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Nov 29, 2021 Dog Homelessness and Development of WBI’s Global Dog Campaign

Posted at 09:52h In Animals in Our World, Articles, Companion Animals - Dogs, Letter from the President, WellBeing News - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

On November 30th, we are holding the first webinar on dog homelessness and WBI's Global Dog Campaign (GDC), and it seems an appropriate time to review the background leading up to this moment.  In 1983, I started working on dog/cat welfare and demographics in the...

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Nov 15, 2021 WellBeing International’s Global Dog Campaign to End Dog Homelessness

Posted at 14:39h In Animals in Our World, Articles, Companion Animals - Dogs, Tales of WellBeing - By Andrew Rowan

As the world begins to emerge from the pandemic, WellBeing International wants to refocus its efforts on the global concerns of the world's homeless dog population.  We invite interested readers to join us on Tuesday (November 30) at noon (EST) for a free webinar reviewing...

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Nov 15, 2021 Bird and Cat Advocates in Harmony: Yes, When Pigs Fly!

Posted at 14:25h In Animals in Our World, Articles, Companion Animals - Cats, Tales of WellBeing - By Nancy Peterson

Meeting Mary Harris after I retired and moved to Colorado changed my life. She's the chair of Roaring Fork Audubon and became my mentor for all things bird. Although I was a birdwatcher back in Maryland, I was not a birder. I enjoyed sitting on...

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Nov 01, 2021 Climate Change and COP26

Posted at 11:31h In Articles, Climate, Global Awareness, Letter from the President, WellBeing News - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil and Kathleen Rowan CEO, WellBeing International

The Letter from the President for September 2021 addressed climate change. This Letter is a follow-up to the previous Letter in September, but we revisit the topic because its importance and gravity to humanity cannot be overstated. We hope to provide a brief primer on...

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Nov 01, 2021 Roads & Wildlife: Safeguarding Asia’s Rich Biodiversity

Posted at 11:19h In Animals in Our World, Articles, Biodiversity, CLLC (Center for Large Landscape Conservation), WellBeing News - By Christine Gianas Weinheimer

For many of us, wildlife-vehicle collisions are a fact of life. In some areas where roads bisect wildlife habitat, collisions or near misses with large mammals like deer are all too familiar, and countless smaller creatures like turtles and squirrels fall victim to automobiles every...

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Nov 01, 2021 Urban Wildlife in New York City

Posted at 11:01h In Animals in Our World, Articles, Human-Animal Interaction, WellBeing News - By John Hadidian, PhD

New Yorkers have never been shy about their city’s achievements. Witness a recent article by Lisa M. Collins (Eagles, Beavers, Sea Turtles: Why N.Y.C. Is Humming with Wildlife  - Oct. 28 NYTimes) that celebrates the city as “humming with wildlife” and enjoying a “surprising” renaissance...

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Oct 13, 2021 Celebrating “Fat Bears” to Promote Conservation

Posted at 16:53h In Animals in Our World, Articles, Conservation, Tales of WellBeing - By Andrew Rowan

Every year since 2014, the Katmai National Park in Alaska has run a competition over the internet to identify a Fat Bear winner based on votes cast by members of the public who watch the Brown bears in the park via webcams as they fatten...

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Oct 13, 2021 Kairavi – The Comeback Calf

Posted at 15:52h In Animals in Our World, Articles, Rescue, Relief & Rebuild, Tales of WellBeing - By Andrew Rowan and Kathleen Rowan

There are many threats to the survival of elephants in the world today, with poaching and habitat loss being among the most obvious. Disease is also an important factor, especially for elephants under human care where a recently discovered herpes virus – elephant endotheliotropic herpes...

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Oct 04, 2021 Climate Change, Food Systems, and Health Impact at the United Nations

Posted at 12:03h In Articles, Food & Agriculture, Global Awareness, Letter from the President, WellBeing News - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

Three significant gatherings address various aspects of climate change, and global limits started in September and proceeded through early November. In September (21 to 27), the United Nations (UN) held its 76th annual meeting (also known as the General Assembly) in New York. During this...

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