Thanks for your support!

I can imagine some of these forecasts influencing funding and advocacy decisions, especially on neglected species/regions and meat consumption. I'm an animal welfare researcher/advocate (currently, I work for Animal Ask and I'm co-founding the Center for Wild Animal Welfare). Sorry for a late reply!

N.B. We've updated the original post to give more info on how supporters can make tax deductible donations.

In short, we can also accept tax deductible donations from the Netherlands, and above a certain threshold from Canada, Germany and Switzerland. Supporters would need to donate to Rethink Priorities through a supporting org (Giving What We Can in UK/NL; Effektiv Spenden in Germany/Switzerland), then forward their recept to development@rethinkpriorities.org and team@wildanimalwelfare.org and request that the gift is restricted for CWAW. We might be able to facilitate tax deductible donations from other countries too.

If anybody has further questions about this, please reach out :)

Hi Hugh! Thanks for the question.

UK donors who want to claim gift aid can:

1. donate to Rethink Priorities through Giving What We Can (at this link)
2. then forward their receipt to development@rethinkpriorities.org and request that the gift is restricted to CWAW. (please also cc team@wildanimalwelfare.org)
   
   It’s important to do step 2 :)

Thanks for your kind words, Angelina! The $60k is our fundraising target, but we would definitely welcome support beyond that.

We’ll meet our initial budget if we raise $60k, together with $60k in matched funding. Additional funding would be used for stretch purposes (e.g., running public polling, hiring consultants, etc). It would also help us build up a runway for future years, reducing uncertainty. So our priority is to get to $60k, but we’d certainly welcome additional funding.

Strongly upvoted.

Bans on octopus farming are huge: preventing a moral atrocity before it happens.

At Asia for Animals in Taiwan, ALI participated in the first-ever aquatic welfare panel in the conference’s food systems track (opened by Taiwan’s President)

Also: wow!

It's always hard to know whether meta work is cost-effective but if you're excited by pro-animal community-building, I reckon Hive is a promising bet.^[1]

• Global Ambassador Program: Our newest initiative provides targeted, culturally-sensitive support for advocates in underserved and underfunded regions, starting with Asia and Latin America.

Here's a blog post/interview with Angel, the Asia Ambassador. I've been pleased to see this program take off (although I've not followed implementation very closely), and I'd be excited to see it expand next year, especially in Africa.

1. ^{^}

   I'm a bit biased as a friend of Hive, but I'm friend because I think they do good work!

Another relevant article is this RP report, which argues "Knowing a group of organisms produce many offspring, have high mortality rates, small body size and are short-lived is not sufficient to determine that their lives are a net negative (or positive)".

Strongly upvoted. I think WAI are one of the best opportunities to help animals.

All photos by Wild Animal Initiative staff

Also: what a flex! Great photos :)

Thanks Siobhan!