Today, we are pleased to announce that Wild-Animal Suffering Research (WASR) and Utility Farm (UF) are merging together to form a new organization focused solely on wild animal welfare — Wild Animal Initiative. Over the last year, we (Wild-Animal Suffering Research and Utility Farm) have become increasingly aware that our work overlaps significantly, and that […]
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This evaluation looks at our progress during the second six months (“T2”) of 2018 and assesses the extent to which our activities have allowed us to make progress towards our strategic goals. As our team worked very few hours during this evaluation period, this document is considerably briefer than our previous evaluation.
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This paper introduces human appropriation of net primary productivity (HANPP), a metric which tracks the percentage of global net primary production that humans use for their own purposes…
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This evaluation looks at our progress during the first six months (“T1”) of 2018 and assesses the extent to which our activities have allowed us to make progress towards our strategic goals. It also includes our most significant mistakes and issues as well as our priorities for the second six months (“T2”) of 2018.
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A list of peer-reviewed journals that have published research related to wild animal welfare, or that could be receptive to such research.
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Persis Eskander was awarded funding in Round Four of the ACE Animal Advocacy Research Fund. To assist researchers interested in seeking funding from the Animal Adocacy Research Fund, she has made a copy of her grant proposal available.
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Persis Eskander was awarded funding in Round Three of the ACE Animal Advocacy Research Fund. To assist researchers interested in seeking funding from the Animal Adocacy Research Fund, she has made a copy of her grant proposal available.
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A collection of wild-animal suffering research conducted by academics and advocates and ranging from introductory pieces to technical content.
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A list of life science media that we currently believe could be receptive to content on reducing wild-animal suffering.
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We estimate we can use up to $161,205 for the next 18 months in additional funding to continue and expand our research.
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The Wild-Animal Suffering Research (WASR) project is fundraising for 2018. This post outlines our plans for next year. If you’d like to support our work, help us fill our room for more funding.
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Wild-animal suffering is a problem of immense proportions. Unfortunately, we do not currently have viable large-scale solutions to it.
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We’re very excited to announce that the Wild-Animal Suffering Research project has just launched its new website.
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If invertebrates are sentient beings they should be treated so that they do not suffer unnecessarily. There is no general position on what constitutes “unnecessary” suffering for wild animals.
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Population control is the policy or practice of limiting growth in numbers of a population. The growth of animal populations may be managed in a wide variety of lesser-known ways.
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