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May 30, 2020 IUCN ‘Guidelines for Conserving Connectivity through Ecological Networks and Corridors’

Posted at 04:53h In Articles, CLLC (Center for Large Landscape Conservation), Environment, Sustainability & Climate, Land Management, One Health, WellBeing News, Wild Animals on Land - By Rachel Caldwell

The Center for Large Landscape Conservation (CLLC) is working to mainstream connectivity conservation solutions around the world that save biodiversity, increase resilience to climate change, and safeguard human health. To this end, CLLC supports the new IUCN Guidelines and the operations of the Connectivity Conservation...

May 15, 2020 Going Beyond Symptomatic Treatment: Adopting One Health in India

Posted at 05:34h In Articles, One Health, Tales of WellBeing - By Naveen Pandey, MVetSci

The advent of a mild winter was in the air around Kaziranga National Park, a UNESCO world heritage site nestled in the north-eastern corner of India. The mighty Brahmaputra River was returning to its normal course of flow after a massive episode of annual flooding....

Apr 30, 2020 Time to Act Now – Why Compassion Counts

Posted at 13:49h In Articles, One Health, WellBeing News - By Jill Robinson, MBE, Founder and CEO, Animals Asia

As the number of people tragically succumbing to Covid-19 grows across the world, we are left reeling with the terrible consequences of our actions and of our ongoing disregard of animal cruelty and hygiene in the live animal markets of Asia and across the world....

Apr 30, 2020 Don’t Blame Wildlife for Covid-19

Posted at 12:48h In Articles, WellBeing News, Wild Animals on Land - By Mark Jones BVSc, MSc (Stir), MSc (UL), MRCVS

The coronavirus pandemic sweeping across the world is causing physical, social and economic disruption on an unprecedented scale.By April 21, 2020, around 2.5 million Covid-19 cases had been reported across the world. More than 170,000 people had died, and the numbers keep rising. A huge...

Apr 30, 2020 Sustainable Development & Trophy Hunting

Posted at 07:54h In Animal Well-being, Articles, Environment, Sustainability & Climate, Letter from the President, WellBeing News, Wildlife - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

Sustainability has become a popular term encompassing the notion that we need to promote and pursue policies that will allow future generations of humans to live and benefit from the wealth provided by the Earth. In 2015, the United Nations (UN) adopted the 2030 Agenda...

Apr 16, 2020 Companion Animals and Mental Health

Posted at 09:30h In Animals in Our World, Articles, Companion Animals - Cats, Companion Animals - Dogs, Tales of WellBeing, Well-being - By Alan E. Kazdin, PhD

Introduction to Promoting Well-Being: Human-Animal Interaction to Improve Mental and Physical Health and the Quality of Life by Alan E. Kazdin, PhD by Andrew Rowan, DPhilAs the world negotiates its interactions with and responses to an emergent coronavirus, it seems like an appropriate time for WBI...

Children of Kampala, Uganda | Photo credit: AnjoKanFotografie

Apr 15, 2020 Everyone is a Potential Solution

Posted at 13:13h In Articles, People Well-being, Public Awareness/Attitudes, Tales of WellBeing, Well-being - By Julian Hattem

“The bad news is that everyone is a potential victim / But the good news is that everyone is a potential solution.”So begins a recent song from Ugandan reggae singer-turned-lawmaker Bobi Wine, who has spent years singing about urban poverty and injustice. The new song,...

llustration credit: Jones et al,2008, Nature 451, https://doi.org/10.1038/nature06536

Mar 31, 2020 The Context for the Coronavirus Pandemic

Posted at 13:31h In Articles, One Health, WellBeing News - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

At the beginning of this century, a review paper (Daszak et al, 2000) highlighted the importance of the consumption of wildlife as a major source of a series of dangerous new “emerging” pathogens.The most well-known of these is the AIDS virus that was first recognized...

Mar 30, 2020 Outdoor Cats – It Doesn’t Have to Be This Way

Posted at 09:20h In Articles, Companion Animals - Cats, WellBeing News - By Bryan Kortis, Esq.

As I sit here tapping out this essay, one thing on my mind is how best to respond to the latest proposal on cats being promoted here in Hawaii by the conservation community. Here in Hawaii, on the island of Kauai, conservationists are pushing the...

Mar 28, 2020 The State of Well-Being

Posted at 09:48h In Articles, Letter from the President, Public Awareness/Attitudes, Resources, Well-being, WellBeing News - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

In February 2019, Wellbeing News carried an article discussing ideas relating to the state of well-being of People, Animals and the Environment. This article was followed by an item on the United Nations’ World Happiness Report in Tales of WellBeing. The World Happiness Report is issued...