Letters from the President

Oct 29, 2019 Global Animal Protection

Posted at 10:06h In Animal Well-being, Animals in Our World, Articles, Letter from the President, WellBeing News - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

September and October are traditionally heavy conference months across the world and that is true in the animal protection space as well. In the past seven weeks, WellBeing International has attended and spoken at five conferences in Addis Ababa, Cape Town, Mombasa, Sydney and Dalian...

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Sep 13, 2019 Third Africa Animal Welfare Conference

Posted at 10:56h In Animals in Our World, Articles, Equid - Health, Letter from the President, WellBeing News - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

The Third African Animal Welfare Conference took place in Addis Ababa at the beginning of September (the first two were held in Kenya in 2017 and 2018). There were over 200 attendees drawn from all regions of Africa and from eight non-African countries. As in...

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Aug 18, 2019 CITES and Wildlife Protection

Posted at 09:17h In Animals in Our World, Articles, Letter from the President, PAE Well-being, WellBeing News - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

This month, delegates from around the world will gather in Geneva to attend the 18th Conference of Parties (COP) of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES). The COP is the triennial CITES meeting attended by representatives of...

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Jul 10, 2019 Plastic Waste and Environmental Health

Posted at 10:19h In Articles, Global Awareness, Letter from the President, Ocean Pollution, WellBeing News - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

In May of this year, the EU adopted new rules on single-use plastic items and plastic fishing gear to reduce marine plastic waste. According to the press release, there is a growing sense of urgency among EU citizens about the need to stop plastic pollution...

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May 15, 2019 Human-Dog Interactions & Municipal Policy

Posted at 10:26h In Animals in Our World, Articles, Letter from the President, Management, WellBeing News - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

In 2009, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Bosnia performed a nationwide survey asking people about the threats in their local communities. Unexpectedly, the results highlighted concerns about roaming dogs (rather than mine fields, crime or some other social ill). More specifically, the complaints...

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Apr 28, 2019 Role of Zoos & Aquaria in the 21st Century

Posted at 10:13h In Animals in Our World, Articles, Letter from the President, WellBeing News, Wild Animals in Captivity - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

In 1995, I was a coauthor with Bob Hoage (then a Public Affairs Officer for the National Zoo in Washington) on the changing animal protection movement and on the evolution and role of zoos and aquaria. Bob contributed the section on zoo evolution and he...

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Mar 30, 2019 Wildlife Declines and Mammalian Biomass

Posted at 11:18h In Animals in Our World, Articles, Letter from the President, WellBeing News, Wild Animals on Land - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

In the last few months, a number of scientific papers have appeared that report declines—including some dramatic declines—in the number of wild animals sharing our planet. Most people familiar with this issue know about the finding that only 4 percent of mammalian terrestrial biomass consists...

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

Posted at 11:12h In Articles, Feel Better, Letter from the President, People 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...

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Jan 10, 2019 Foundation of WellBeing International

Posted at 11:01h In Articles, Global Awareness, Letter from the President, PAE Well-being, 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...

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