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Welfare biology

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Welfare biology is the study of living things considered as moral patients. The discipline’s main purpose is to determine the circumstances affecting wild animal welfare. Applied welfare biology, in turn, is the application of welfare biology to identify interventions that affect the welfare of wild animals.[1] The field was established by economist Yew-Kwang Ng in a seminal 1995 paper.[2]

Further reading

Animal Ethics (2018) Welfare biology, Animal Ethics, September 30 (updated 10 December 2021).

Carpendale, Max (2015) Welfare biology as an extension of biology: Interview with Yew-Kwang Ng, Relations, vol. 3, pp. 197–202.

Faria, Catia & Oscar Horta (2019) Welfare biology, in Bob Fischer (ed.) The Routledge Handbook of Animal Ethics, New York: Routledge, pp. 455–466.

Groff, Zach & Yew-Kwang Ng (2019) Does suffering dominate enjoyment in the animal kingdom? An update to welfare biology, Biology and Philosophy, vol. 34, pp. 1–16.

Ng, Yew-Kwang (2016) How welfare biology and commonsense may help to reduce animal suffering, Animal Sentience, vol. 7, pp. 1–10.

Pearce, David (2016) Compassionate biology: How CRISPR-based “gene drives” could cheaply, rapidly and sustainably reduce suffering throughout the living world, BLTC Research (updated 2021).

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    Faria, Catia & Oscar Horta (2019) Welfare biology, in Bob Fischer (ed.) The Routledge Handbook of Animal Ethics, New York: Routledge, pp. 455–466.

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    Ng, Yew-Kwang (1995) Towards welfare biology: Evolutionary economics of animal consciousness and suffering, Biology and Philosophy, vol. 10, pp. 255–285.

Strate­gic con­sid­er­a­tions for effec­tive wild an­i­mal suffer­ing work

Animal_EthicsJan 18, 2022, 7:27 PM
25 points
0 comments26 min readEA link

Welfare Foot­print Pro­ject—a blueprint for quan­tify­ing an­i­mal pain

MichaelStJulesJun 26, 2021, 8:05 PM
73 points
2 comments2 min readEA link

[Question] How can non-biol­o­gists con­tribute to wild an­i­mal welfare?

Eevee🔹Feb 17, 2021, 8:58 PM
15 points
9 comments1 min readEA link

Wild An­i­mal Ini­ti­a­tive is launch­ing a re­search fund

Wild_Animal_InitiativeJul 9, 2021, 9:45 PM
26 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.wildanimalinitiative.org)

In­tro­duc­tion to wild an­i­mal suffer­ing: A guide to the issues

Animal_EthicsApr 3, 2020, 8:53 PM
44 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

Biol­ogy pro­ject in search of first au­thor: imag­ing the brain of pop­u­lar farmed in­sect Black Soldier Fly

Holly Elmore ⏸️ 🔸Apr 9, 2021, 6:19 PM
90 points
0 comments4 min readEA link

Os­car Horta: Pro­mot­ing Welfare Biol­ogy as the Study of Wild An­i­mal Suffering

EA GlobalFeb 26, 2019, 3:51 PM
30 points
0 comments11 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

Wild An­i­mal Ini­ti­a­tive fea­tured in Vox

Wild_Animal_InitiativeApr 21, 2021, 5:58 PM
70 points
8 comments1 min readEA link
(www.wildanimalinitiative.org)

Wild An­i­mal Fel­low­ship: $60k/​yr + $25k in expenses

JoyOptimizerDec 31, 2022, 6:12 PM
29 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.wildanimalinitiative.org)

Brian To­masik – The Im­por­tance of Wild-An­i­mal Suffering

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12 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(longtermrisk.org)

Mon­i­tor­ing Wild An­i­mal Welfare via Vocalizations

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79 points
1 comment24 min readEA link

Wild an­i­mal suffer­ing video course

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30 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

Changes in con­di­tions are a pri­ori bad for av­er­age an­i­mal welfare

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27 points
11 comments5 min readEA link

How Much Do Wild An­i­mals Suffer? A Foun­da­tional Re­sult on the Ques­tion is Wrong.

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84 points
12 comments2 min readEA link

Will Brad­shaw: Biolog­i­cal ag­ing — a new ap­proach to mea­sur­ing an­i­mal welfare

EA GlobalOct 18, 2019, 6:05 PM
8 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

Cults that want to kill ev­ery­one, stealth vs wild­fire pan­demics, and how he felt in­vent­ing gene drives (Kevin Esvelt on the 80,000 Hours Pod­cast)

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1 comment16 min readEA link

[Question] Is biol­ogy ma­jor a suit­able choice for EAs?

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15 points
5 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] Is it harder to get an­i­mal welfare re­search funds in aca­demics?

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5 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

Farmed an­i­mals may have pos­i­tive lives now or in a few decades?

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24 points
10 comments7 min readEA link

Are fish­ing and agri­cul­ture bad for an­i­mals?

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16 points
2 comments6 min readEA link

Wild an­i­mal suffer­ing caused by fires and ways to pre­vent it: a non­con­tro­ver­sial in­ter­ven­tion

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19 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

What 99% of peo­ple don’t know about Wild Animals

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58 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

Re­silience & Biodiversity

emwalzAug 11, 2022, 12:37 AM
62 points
9 comments14 min readEA link

A chat with Kyle Jo­hannsen, au­thor of Wild An­i­mal Ethics: The Mo­ral and Poli­ti­cal Prob­lem of Wild An­i­mal Suffering

Michael HuangJun 18, 2022, 1:00 PM
24 points
3 comments9 min readEA link

Sur­vey­ing at­ti­tudes to­wards helping wild an­i­mals among sci­en­tists and students

Animal_EthicsMar 20, 2020, 7:56 PM
27 points
7 comments5 min readEA link

A library of sci­en­tific refer­ences rele­vant to welfare biology

Animal_EthicsDec 6, 2019, 2:24 PM
21 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

A Re­search Agenda for Estab­lish­ing Welfare Biology

abrahamroweMar 15, 2019, 6:24 PM
22 points
11 comments10 min readEA link

Edit­ing wild an­i­mals is un­der­ex­plored in What We Owe the Future

Michael HuangAug 31, 2022, 2:26 PM
32 points
5 comments3 min readEA link

On­line Work­ing /​ Com­mu­nity Meetup for the Abo­li­tion of Suffering

Ruth_SeleoMay 31, 2022, 9:16 AM
7 points
5 comments1 min readEA link

Zach Groff: Does suffer­ing dom­i­nate en­joy­ment in the an­i­mal king­dom?

EA GlobalFeb 18, 2020, 12:46 AM
43 points
1 comment14 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

Con­crete next steps for age­ing-based welfare measures

Will BradshawNov 1, 2019, 2:55 PM
38 points
3 comments7 min readEA link

The po­ten­tial to re­duce the suffer­ing of an­i­mals liv­ing in the wild by us­ing eDNA sampling

Animal_EthicsNov 16, 2020, 8:19 PM
28 points
3 comments22 min readEA link

[Question] Ca­reer ad­vice for Aus­tralian sci­ence un­der­grad in­ter­ested in welfare biology

ripbennyharveyJul 21, 2021, 5:53 AM
20 points
6 comments2 min readEA link

Scien­tists’ at­ti­tudes to­wards im­prov­ing the welfare of an­i­mals in the wild: a qual­i­ta­tive study

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41 points
2 comments5 min readEA link

Re­sources on An­i­mal Ethics and Helping Animals

Eleos Arete CitriniSep 10, 2021, 11:22 PM
34 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

Assess­ing bio­mark­ers of age­ing as mea­sures of cu­mu­la­tive an­i­mal welfare

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74 points
13 comments20 min readEA link
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