Approximately fifteen years ago, The Lancet, a British medical journal, launched a series of Commissions to produce expert reports on health issues and related policy questions. The Lancet website now lists ninety-seven such commissions ranging from reports on specific health issues – e.g., Covid-19 –...
Livestock and wildlife live along the Ewaso River in Kenya's northern rangelands, a region frequently affected by prolonged droughts. Livestock are existential for the Samburu people in the region. In the words of Lavias Lekuuk, a Samburu elder: "We are a pastoralist community. Cows are...
The true story, A Street Cat Named Bob, is an international best-seller about twin redemption: that of a homeless tabby street cat and a homeless Englishman who adopt each other and help one another heal, leading to celebrity status for both cat and human. The author,...
COP30: Context The 30th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP30) is the annual United Nations conference on climate change, established under the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) treaty. This year's 2025 conference will take place in Brazil, from November 10...
In the first part of this series, an ancient relationship between humans and beaver, largely exploitative, was noted., Almost gone from Western Europe by the early Middle Ages, beavers were found to be abundant and available in the New World. There, they were exploited for...
Introduction For over five decades, the South Florida Wildlife Center (SFWC) has been a cornerstone of wildlife rescue and rehabilitation on 4.1 acres of leased land in Broward County, South Florida. The SFWC serves not only Broward County but also parts of Palm Beach and Miami-Dade...
For more than 200 years, children throughout the world have learned moral lessons from stories heavily populated by both verbal and nonverbal animal characters. Whether we are talking about Peter Rabbit and Jemima Puddleduck from Beatrix Potter, Babar the Elephant from Jean de Brunhoff, Winnie-the-Pooh...
Wellbeing International has published several articles in its newsletters highlighting encouraging advances in replacing animals in laboratory research. WBI recently attended the Thirteenth World Congress on Alternatives and Animal Use in the Life Sciences in Rio de Janeiro. The talks at that event predicted significant...
Animal welfare science has advanced steadily over the past fifty years. The International Society for Applied Ethology (ISAE—originally founded as the Society for Veterinary Ethology in Edinburgh) has been a key platform for developments in this field. The society held its 58th conference in Utrecht...
Video credit: Stefan Krisa, iStock Introduction The North American beaver (Castor canadensis) was an easily commodifiable resource for the first European colonizers of the New World. Its Old-World cousin (Castor fiber) had been extirpated from western Europe by the early Middle Ages. Still, an estimated 60-400 million...
