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Feb 26, 2020 Managing Cats for Cats, Wildlife & People

Posted at 09:31h In Articles, Companion Animals - Cats, Global Awareness, Letter from the President, WellBeing News - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

In the January 2020 issue of our Tales of WellBeing, we related the story of an outdoor cat project on Key Largo, Florida, called ORCAT – Ocean Reef Cat Project. To most people the cat management project has been a big success, reducing the number of...

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Jan 29, 2020 Support for Australian People, Animals and Environment

Posted at 13:17h In Articles, Conflicts & Disasters, Education - Humane, WellBeing News - By Gary Tabor, DVM

The New York Times (19 January 2020) reported that Australia has shifted from being a donor country to a charitable recipient nation in the face of its current wildfire emergency. To make matters even worse, the wholesale burning of Australia's landscapes has set the country...

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Jan 29, 2020 Australian Fires & Climate Change

Posted at 09:41h In Articles, Conflicts & Disasters, Letter from the President, PAE Well-being, WellBeing News - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

For the past two months, the news has been full of stories about the fires in Australia. Australia has always had to deal with fires but recently they have been different in both magnitude and intensity. To date, with at least six weeks of fire...

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Jan 29, 2020 Australian Bushfires – Hell on Earth for People, but especially for Wildlife

Posted at 07:52h In Articles, Conflicts & Disasters, PAE Well-being, WellBeing News - By Michael Kennedy, AM

The Federal Government in Australia was warned by a group of ex-fire chiefs early in 2019 that the country was facing a potential fire disaster scenario that was in part due to the ongoing and significant effects of climate change. The group asked for a...

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Jan 29, 2020 Australian Bushfires and the Future

Posted at 04:02h In Articles, Conflicts & Disasters, PAE Well-being, WellBeing News - By David Hensher, PhD FASSA

The summer fires in Australia mark a cataclysmic reminder that climate change is hurting our planet and that we need to recognise it and plan for a future that minimises the risk to humans and wildlife. [caption id="attachment_7320" align="alignright" width="378"] Burned Australian Forest,, Photo by D....

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Jan 24, 2020 A Tale of a Street Dog in Mumbai

Posted at 10:38h In Animals in Our World, Articles, Companion Animals - Dogs - By Hemanta R. Mishra, PhD

Dr. Hemanta Mishra is a Nepalese conservation biologist who has become interested in the plight of street dogs in South Asia. The following blog provides an anecdote from his visit to Mumbai to meet with the Tata Trusts in 2011.   -   One mid-morning in 2011...

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Jan 24, 2020 Marshall Rinquest – A Role Model For Environmental & Humane Education

Posted at 09:40h In Articles, GFAS (Greyton Farm Animal Sanctuary), Global Awareness, PAE Well-being, Tales of WellBeing - By Nicky Vernon

South Africa, like many countries around the world, is struggling to balance the needs of the environment as well as the development and infrastructure needs of the people. The Western Cape (in the southern portion of the country) is the home of a unique Cape...

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Jan 17, 2020 A Successful Cat Management Project for People, Animals and Environment

Posted at 07:17h In Animals in Our World, Articles, Companion Animals - Cats, Tales of WellBeing - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

Outdoor cats can be a challenge for people and wildlife, especially on islands and in areas with sensitive wildlife, such as the Florida Keys. Solutions are often elusive due to varied community interests, lack of resources and conflicts between wildlife biologists and animal activists. But the...

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Dec 27, 2019 Wild Animals on Our Doorstep

Posted at 07:42h In Animals in Our World, Articles, GFAS (Greyton Farm Animal Sanctuary), Human-Animal Interaction, WellBeing News - By Andrew White

The world over, wild animals pose a challenge to humans, from elephants in the savannah to coyotes in suburbia. Greyton, a community of 11,000 people about 80 miles from Cape Town, is not exempt. Here we have our own set of problems shared by many...

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Dec 25, 2019 Rabies in Chennai and in India

Posted at 13:09h In Articles, BCI (Blue Cross of India), Global Awareness, People Well-being, WellBeing News - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

One of the more important recent papers on the role of dogs in rabies transmission was the paper by Reece & Chawla (2006). It described the elimination of human rabies cases in the center of Jaipur due to a street dog sterilization and vaccination program...

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