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Jun 18, 2024 Animal Rescue in Costa Rica

Posted at 15:35h In AHPPA (Asociación Humanitaria para la Protección Animal), Animal Well-being, Articles, Companion Animals, Global Dog Campaign, Tales of WellBeing - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil and Kathleen Rowan CEO, WellBeing International

In 2015, Costa Rican government agencies brought seized and rescued companion animals from substandard conditions or illegal activities such as dog fighting to the animal shelter near San Jose. The shelter, run by the Asociación Humanitaria Para la Protección Animal (AHPPA), a partner organization in...

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Jun 10, 2024 Nature and Health, A Walk in the Park

Posted at 13:31h In Articles, Human Well-being, Public Awareness/Attitudes, WellBeing News - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

The Covid pandemic had a widespread social impact in addition to its effects on public health. For example, in the Washington, DC area, home buyers were focused on homes in the city pre-COVID, and the Washington suburban real estate market was in the doldrums. However,...

Lists and reports from World Animal Protection and American League Defense Fund

Jun 10, 2024 Do Lists Improve Animal Protection?

Posted at 13:31h In Animal Well-being, Animals, Articles, Public Awareness/Attitudes, WellBeing News - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

It has been suggested that humans should be categorized as the species Homo classification rather than Homo sapiens because we are so attracted to making lists and developing categories to simplify and organize the world around us. For example, journalists recognize that the audience will...

Jun 10, 2024 Healthy Brains, Scientific Innovation and “The Endless Frontier”

Posted at 12:47h In Articles, Letter from the President, Well-being - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

In 1945, Vannevar Bush, a key figure in the history of scientific research, sent a report to President Truman, Science- the endless frontier, advocating for an expansion of Federal funding of basic research and support for students seeking a college education. The committee advising Bush...

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May 20, 2024 Animals, Biodiversity, and Climate Change

Posted at 10:55h In Articles, Climate Change, Land Management, Public Awareness/Attitudes, Sustainability/Biodiversity, Tales of WellBeing, Well-being, Wild Animals - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

On December 19, 2022, representatives from 188 countries adopted a new agreement on biodiversity, now known as the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF). The 2022 GBF aims to halt and reverse biodiversity loss by adopting four overarching global goals and 23 targets, including conserving 30%...

Kerasote's dogs, from left to right Burley, Pukka, Goo, A.J

May 20, 2024 Dog Longevity: The True Value of a Dog Year!

Posted at 10:41h In Animal Well-being, Articles, Companion Animals, Public Awareness/Attitudes - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

Ted Kerasote is an outdoorsman and author who has written three charming and insightful books about the human-dog relationship – Merle's Door (2007), Pukka, The Pup after Merle (2010), and Pukka's Promise (2013). Pukka's Promise relates the story of Kerasote's search for a dog that...

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May 08, 2024 Bird Flu Spreading to Farmed Mammals in the US

Posted at 17:10h In Animal Well-being, Articles, Farm Animals, Human Well-being, Letter from the President, Public Awareness/Attitudes - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil and Hope Ferdowsian, M.D., M.P.H.

WellBeing International has published four articles on the Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza Virus (HPAIV) in the past fourteen months. Science has published seven news stories on bird flu this year. The most recent story (May 1, 2024) was titled “Scientists Call New Measures to Control...

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May 08, 2024 Global Trees and Climate Change

Posted at 17:06h In Articles, Climate Change, Environment Well-being, Sustainability/Biodiversity, WellBeing News - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil and Kathleen Rowan CEO, WellBeing International

As a graduate student at Yale University School of Forestry, Thomas Crowther was intrigued by a question his roommate was asked: how many trees were on Earth? While his roommate didn't see the significance of the question, Crowther took up the challenge of using a...

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May 08, 2024 Human-Animal Interactions and Edibility?

Posted at 17:01h In Articles, Companion Animals, Well-being, WellBeing News - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

In 1964, a provocative essay was published by British social anthropologist Edmund Leach in the proceedings of the 17th International Congress of Psychology. The organizer of the congress, Eric Lenneberg, commented that he used the occasion to invite outstanding scientists to discuss the phenomenon of...

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Apr 17, 2024 Earth Day

Posted at 12:31h In Articles, Climate Change, Sustainability/Biodiversity, Tales of WellBeing, Well-being - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

April 22, 2024, will be the 54th anniversary of the first Earth Day.The 1960s decade in the USA was a time of widespread citizen protests and demonstrations. Citizens used protest marches and sit-ins to campaign for civil rights. Women demanded equality in the labor market...