Re: wild animals suffering. My sense is that suffering could be increased in such mass killing, as the animals didn’t just died (in some cases in extremely painful ways such as traps), their energy is released back to become some other wild animals. Also, certain species suddenly drop in population very likely forces most species in the system to suddenly experience survival pressure. (even for the prey of the animal killed, because if their predators suddenly disappear, they will soon starve by eating out everything they can eat).
Otherwise, EAs can also use such mass killing as a wild animal suffering intervention (which is allowed in some countries).
Re: wild animals suffering. My sense is that suffering could be increased in such mass killing, as the animals didn’t just died (in some cases in extremely painful ways such as traps), their energy is released back to become some other wild animals. Also, certain species suddenly drop in population very likely forces most species in the system to suddenly experience survival pressure. (even for the prey of the animal killed, because if their predators suddenly disappear, they will soon starve by eating out everything they can eat).
Otherwise, EAs can also use such mass killing as a wild animal suffering intervention (which is allowed in some countries).