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Human societies have a long history of coexistence with wildlife. In honor of the International Day of Happiness, our speakers will discuss some examples of these powerful connections and the role they play in happiness and well-being.

These stories and lessons of cultural keystone species around the world can inspire us as we search for ways to address the current extinction crisis and can help us all develop and communicate a roadmap for ways to connect with wildlife in our own backyards.

Featuring panelists Gunjan Menon, Jason Baldes, Patience Kabamba, Roshan Patel, and Beth Allgood.

OneNature was recently in an article by The Academic focused on how OneNature is shifting paradigms and practice through expanded engaged approaches and indigenous wisdom.

Watch the video and check out the article!

Columbia University Sustainability Management Capstone

OneNature was delighted to work with the Columbia University Sustainability Management Capstone project over the Fall 2022 semester. The team analyzed existing research and conducted interviews with experts in the field to create a summary of what we know about nature, health, equity, and economic valuation in the United States and presented the findings. They created a story map that beautifully conveyed the project and the recommendations.

We were incredibly impressed by the work! Some of the initial recommendations were included in our comments to the U.S. Government on including nature in U.S. accounts. And the final results will be included in our continued outreach to the U.S. for the valuing nature initiative and the well-being and equity initiative.

Working For Well-being For All Beings with Beth Allgood

OneNature President Beth Allgood recently guest starred on the Forces for Nature podcast hosted by Crystal DiMiceli! In this episode, Beth and Crystal discuss a few ways nature and wildlife impact our well-being.

You can listen to this episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, and most other podcasting apps, as well as on the Forces for Nature website!

OneNature Institute: Advancing Well-Being for All Beings

Image credit: Irina Iriser via Unsplash.

Research on Well-being in Conservation Practice

The link between holistic community development and wildlife conservation is a fascinating one. These articles were co-authored by OneNature President Beth Allgood et al. and published in the International Journal of Community Well-being.

OneNature Executive Director, Beth Allgood, was honored to have an article included in “The Himalayan,” a journal of the EASTERN HIMALAYAN NATURENOMICSTM FORUM. The article, “What is a community well-being approach to conservation and why is it so important?” can be found on page 5 of the publication.

Assessing Community-based Wildlife Conservation Programs with the Gross National Happiness Framework, 2019

OneNature offers the following report in response to the social, economic, and environmental crises confronting the world today, including pandemic, disease, social injustice, economic inequality, climate change, and biodiversity loss.

Proposing a Community-based Widllife Conservation Well-Being Instrument, 2020

New OneNature Research

OneNature researchers have collaborated with academic and conservation partners to conduct research and co-author a series of peer-reviewed academic papers and perspectives articles that demonstrate the link between natural capital/wildlife and cultural capital/community well-being.

Reconciling culture and conservation of wildlife: Field insights regarding sustainable community development projects and stakeholder well-being

Tethering Natural Capital and Cultural Capital for a More Sustainable Post-COVID-19 World

Bolstering community well-being through wildlife conservation: Broadened approaches engaging wildlife well-being and indigenous wisdom

Videos

Follow Beth Allgood of OneNature on her recent trip to Kenya to pilot the Wild Happiness well-being approach to conservation in an IFAW project.

Watch the Our Daily Planet interview with OneNature founder Beth Allgood

The Science and the Stories of How Animals Makes Us Happy

Crystal Cove Conservancy’s Speaker Series: Beth Allgood

Asheville Wisdom Exchange: Wellbeing for All Beings – Beth Allgood

Connecting With Animals: Beth Allgood & Steven Monfort

Reimagining Nature

The Threat to our Happiness

Learn more about measuring what matters from OneNature founder Beth Allgood

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Pope Francis

It is not enough, however, to think of different species merely as potential “resources” to be exploited, while overlooking the fact that they have value in themselves. Each year sees the disappearance of thousands of plant and animal species which we will never know, which our children will never see, because they have been lost for ever. The great majority become extinct for reasons related to human activity. Because of us, thousands of species will no longer give glory to God by their very existence, nor convey their message to us. We have no such right.

– Encyclical Letter Laudato Si’ of the Holy Father Francison Care for Our Common Home