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Feb 28, 2019 Well-Being for People, Animals and Environment

Posted at 11:12h In Animal Well-being, Articles, Environment Well-being, Human Well-being, Letter from the President, Well-being, WellBeing News - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

WellBeing International’s vision is focused on promoting the well-being of People, Animals, and the Environment (PAE Triad) and achieving optimal outcomes for all. The challenges involved in developing an appropriate measure of well-being for all three elements in the PAE Triad cannot be overstated and our goal to...

Feb 28, 2019 Human-Baboon Conflict Mitigation

Posted at 06:50h In Articles, GFAS (Greyton Farm Animal Sanctuary), WellBeing News, Wildlife on Land - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

The chacma baboon (Papio ursinus) is one of the largest of all monkeys and is a relatively common sight in the Cape Province in South Africa. In fact, the 500 or so baboons living on the mountain slopes of the Cape Peninsula (Cape Town, South...

Feb 27, 2019 Plastics In The Ocean

Posted at 12:31h In Articles, Oceans, WellBeing News - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

As the global production of plastic items explodes, plastic debris and waste are accumulating across the planet’s oceans. A 20-fold increase in plastic production occurred between 1964 and 2014, and the rate of production continues to increase (see figure: 407 million tonnes in 2015, 302...

Feb 24, 2019 Bridging The Divide Between Animal Protection And Traditional Conservation Biology

Posted at 10:11h In Articles, Ethics, Regulation, Law, WellBeing News - By William Lynn, PhD and John Hadidian, PhD

Wildlife conservation had its beginning in the United States in the mid-nineteenth century, largely in response to the widespread destruction of wildlife through market hunting. Notable among its early supporters was our 26th president, Theodore Roosevelt (TR), who was almost solely responsible for setting aside...

Jan 30, 2019 Humane Education-Vaccinate Against Violence

Posted at 13:59h In Articles, Education, GFAS (Greyton Farm Animal Sanctuary), WellBeing News - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

Humane education – teaching children to be kind to animals and not be cruel – is one of the foundations of the global animal protection movement. St. Thomas Aquinas, while holding that Catholics had no direct duties to animals, still argued that humans had indirect...

Jan 30, 2019 Global Dog Campaign – a WellBeing International Initiative

Posted at 13:23h In Articles, Companion Animals, WellBeing News - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

There are approximately 800 million dogs in the world today. Around 300 million are street dogs, and the others are mostly either pets or household guard dogs. The interactions communities have with street dogs is changing (see Oct 26 blog on a shelter in Costa...

Jan 30, 2019 Plastics – Environmental Protection

Posted at 13:07h In Articles, Oceans, WellBeing News, Wildlife in Water - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

Many readers are likely already aware of the threat of plastic pollution to the environment, especially plastic in the world’s oceans. This issue has built rapidly in the last few years and there are several new NGOs launched in the last few years that focus...

Jan 30, 2019 History And Impact Of The Johns Hopkins Center For Alternatives To Animal Testing: Developments For Humans And Animals In Safety Testing And Risk Assessment.

Posted at 06:20h In Articles, Laboratory Animals, Resources, WellBeing News - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

Andrew N Rowan speaking at Johns Hopkins School of Public Health and Hygiene on November 28, 2018, on the Impact that the Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing has had on the field since its founding in 1981. View presentation. In 2007, the National Research Council...

Jan 10, 2019 Foundation of WellBeing International

Posted at 11:01h In Articles, Letter from the President, Well-being, WellBeing International, WellBeing News - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

WellBeing International (WBI) was founded on the basis that improving the long-term well-being of people should, with suitable foresight and wisdom, also involve improving the well-being of animals and the environment, and vice-versa. We believe there are ways to improve the well-being of all three...

Nov 28, 2018 Promoting Well-Being: Human-Animal Interaction to Improve Mental and Physical Health and the Quality of Life

Posted at 12:42h In Articles, Tales of WellBeing, Well-being - By Alan E. Kazdin, PhD

Republished April 15, 2020, originally published November 28, 2018A recent article in the Guardian newspaper (UK) by Dr. Ranjana Srivastava comments on the importance of the human-animal connection for some of her patients. Dr. Srivastava conveys poignantly and concretely how pets influence our lives and...