Stories from OneNature
How Does Animal Abuse Affect Our Mental Health?
Photo Credit: Jakob Cotton / Unsplash For the third installment of our series on the links between mental health and animals, we’re taking a look at the negative side. We’ve looked at some of the positive effects animals have on mental health, but the link between...
Why We Should Give a Hoot About Birds
A core part of our mission at OneNature is to fill the research gap about how wildlife makes people happier. We know already that wildlife is good for our overall well-being, especially because healthy and biodiverse ecosystems are very effective at climate change...
The Benefits of Animals are Paw-sitively Endless
October comes with numerous occasions to raise awareness of mental health struggles. Some of the focuses of this month surrounding mental health include depression, mental health screening, ADHD, and OCD. With October 4th being World Animal Day, we’ve decided to...
IUCN’s Fight for Gender Equality
Equity and the protection and inclusion of diverse perspectives is a critical part of achieving conservation led by communities. Modern conservation is evolving to better include indigenous and diverse perspectives, but it is still a work in progress. Moving from a...
Take a Walk on the Rewilding Side
Our OneNature family is thrilled to announce that Founder and President Beth Allgood will be representing our organization at the annual Jackson Wild Summit next week. The theme for this year’s summit is “Rewilding” and Beth will be moderating a session focused on...
Insect Biodiversity in Urban Spaces – A Super Fly Topic in Conservation!
Without question, human activities that cause habitat loss and fragmentation have contributed to the crises of biodiversity loss and mass extinction, and this has in turn worsened the climate crisis. With the human population on the rise, bringing with it endless...
OneNature Endorsement: A Pledge for Nature
Some of you may recall from our previous blog post that OneNature worked with the World Federation for Animals (WFA) and other partners on a position paper which outlined specific recommendations on how to improve the first draft of the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity...
Working Together to Improve the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework
The World Federation for Animals (WFA) is a membership organization for animal protection groups, an organization with which OneNature is proud to be affiliated. Their mission, well-aligned with ours, is to improve the well-being of all animals and end suffering that...
Happy Bee-lated World Honey Bee Day
Have you eaten yet today? Yes? Well, you can thank pollinators for at least one out of every three bites that you took. Or maybe you’re the type of person to skip breakfast. Did you have a cup of coffee, or perhaps tea? Pollinators were responsible for that, too....
EVENT INVITATION: Well-being for all beings: what it is and why it matters
Join OneNature Founder and President Beth Allgood on Thursday, September 16th at 7pm as she shares her perspective on how we can create a future where the well-being of all beings is secured. She will be discussing how value measurements can help us to better...
How Rescuing Homeless Animals Will Also Protect Wildlife
Animal adoptions, especially for dogs, increased significantly during the first several months of the pandemic. Many people were overcome with boredom during lockdown and sought the routine that comes with caring for an animal that requires food and exercise. Others...
Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples: Calling for a New Social Contract
Guest blog post by Meg Gisonda Days of awareness are an excellent reminder for all of us to educate ourselves on various issues, both historical and ongoing, that affect people and animals around the world. Monday was International Day of the World's Indigenous...
Nature Empowers Us to Be Happier
Mental health came to the forefront of international conversation this past week after US gymnast Simone Biles announced that she would not be competing in her planned Olympic events due to reasons of mental health. The response to her decision, while generally in her...
Improving the World for All Beings, One Action at a Time
Biodiversity loss, along with its twin crisis of climate change, can oftentimes seem too overwhelming to solve on a generational level, much less on an individual one. This is especially true considering the vast majority of pollution and habitat degradation is caused...
OneNature and the Well-being Economy
OneNature believes that in order to improve the well-being of all, we must move away from an emphasis on the “growth of the economy” as a goal and towards the “growth of well-being” as a goal. With this important shift, we can better prioritize and measure the impacts...