Forestation/Deforestation arguably robustly increase/decrease the number of wild animals. In contrast, improving the quality of lives seems pretty hard due to indirect effects. So it seems to me like figuring out whether wild animal welfare is positive or negative is quite an important question. If it could be answered robustly, there would be many interventions to decrease suffering or increase happiness of wild animals.
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Forestation/Deforestation arguably robustly increase/decrease the number of wild animals. In contrast, improving the quality of lives seems pretty hard due to indirect effects. So it seems to me like figuring out whether wild animal welfare is positive or negative is quite an important question. If it could be answered robustly, there would be many interventions to decrease suffering or increase happiness of wild animals.