All of the interventions in the ‘helping now’ section focus on preventing additional human caused harm to invertebrates. I agree these are important, but there may also be promising interventions that improve the welfare of invertebrates from their current baseline.
For example, a popular intervention for insect conservation is to plant wildflowers along curbsides, particularly in agricultural areas with monocultures. I’m not completely sure how insects choose nest sites, but I doubt that an evaluation of local food resources is made. So insects (bees for instance), that disperse into fields growing grasses probably suffer from food scarcity (as well as pesticides). All in all, I expect that this particular intervention is less effective at increasing insect welfare than the harm-prevention interventions proposed (and it would likely increase insect numbers in agricultural areas which may be net negative due to pesticide exposure), but there may be other life-improving options to consider. These may be quite tractable to implement if they fit into conservation groups existing agendas.
All of the interventions in the ‘helping now’ section focus on preventing additional human caused harm to invertebrates. I agree these are important, but there may also be promising interventions that improve the welfare of invertebrates from their current baseline.
For example, a popular intervention for insect conservation is to plant wildflowers along curbsides, particularly in agricultural areas with monocultures. I’m not completely sure how insects choose nest sites, but I doubt that an evaluation of local food resources is made. So insects (bees for instance), that disperse into fields growing grasses probably suffer from food scarcity (as well as pesticides). All in all, I expect that this particular intervention is less effective at increasing insect welfare than the harm-prevention interventions proposed (and it would likely increase insect numbers in agricultural areas which may be net negative due to pesticide exposure), but there may be other life-improving options to consider. These may be quite tractable to implement if they fit into conservation groups existing agendas.