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Meet our Advisory Council!
OneNature is thrilled to announce the launch of our new Advisory Council today! We welcome these 9 Advisory Council members to the OneNature family. These talented and visionary people are providing OneNature with strategic advice, professional expertise, and personal passion for advancing the...
Seeking case studies and collaborators for a new academic paper and report!
At OneNature, we are continually striving to learn more about the intersection of human and non-human well-being in the conservation landscape. We believe that the well-being of local communities is tied to those of the wildlife around them. We also believe that the protection of wildlife...
Youth for Climate Action
As the Climate COP in Glasgow continues into its second week, it is a good time to reflect on the role and success of youth in moving the global conservation around climate change forward. World leaders have tended to dismiss youth climate activists, yet in the past several years youth-led...
What is COP26 and Why is it Important?
The Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP) summit brings parties together to discuss and take action towards the goals of both the Paris Agreement and the UN Convention on Climate Change. COP is held each year for about two weeks but was canceled in 2020 due to COVID-19. This year, the...
Personal Stories of Love, Connection, and Happiness
With today’s blog post, we will be concluding our October series on the connection between animals and mental health. In the first three blog pieces, we covered what information we know on this topic from abundant scientific research on companion animals and human happiness, what less abundant...
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 animal abuse and mental health is...
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 mitigation and adaptation. Large...
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 highlight the linkages between...
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 focus on species to the...
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 community-driven conservation....
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 proposals for urban and suburban...
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 Framework (GBF). The primary...
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 results from human...
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. Although there are many different...
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 understand the benefits that humans...