I co-founded 2 of and have worked at another of the 6 organizations that have worked on wild animal welfare with an EA lens.
I don’t recall there being this many EA-aligned orgs working on wild animal welfare! :O Which ones were they?
I know Utility Farm and Wild Animal Suffering Research merged into Wild Animal Initiative. There’s Animal Ethics and Rethink Priorities. Were the other orgs sub-projects of these?
Animal Charity Evaluators is the 6th, which did some surveying and research work in the space. I guess that counts. My phrasing was ambiguous. There have been 6, I co-founded 2 (UF and WAI), worked at another (Rethink Priorities).
I also think Abe was right to count ACE as working in wild animal welfare before, because their early explorations directly contributed to the formation of the field. For example, the intern that carried out their 2016 survey on attitudes toward wild animal welfare is now a researcher at Wild Animal Initiative. (You can see some of Luke Hecht’s recent work here.)
I don’t recall there being this many EA-aligned orgs working on wild animal welfare! :O Which ones were they?
I know Utility Farm and Wild Animal Suffering Research merged into Wild Animal Initiative. There’s Animal Ethics and Rethink Priorities. Were the other orgs sub-projects of these?
You have 5⁄6 there already, so we’re only missing one.
I think Abraham suggested there were at least 8: he co-founded 2 and worked at another 6.
He said he worked at “another of the 6”. (Emphasis mine)
i.e. He co-founded 2 (UF and WAI) and worked at another 1, out of 6 total.
(I don’t know what the 6th is)
Woops, ya, you’re right.
Animal Charity Evaluators is the 6th, which did some surveying and research work in the space. I guess that counts. My phrasing was ambiguous. There have been 6, I co-founded 2 (UF and WAI), worked at another (Rethink Priorities).
In the time since Abraham wrote this comment, Animal Charity Evaluators recommended one of the orgs he started as a Top Charity! So ACE definitely counts now, and Abe needs to update his resume.
I also think Abe was right to count ACE as working in wild animal welfare before, because their early explorations directly contributed to the formation of the field. For example, the intern that carried out their 2016 survey on attitudes toward wild animal welfare is now a researcher at Wild Animal Initiative. (You can see some of Luke Hecht’s recent work here.)