“How to systematically reduce wild animal suffering in the near future” by Stijn Bruers 🔸

Crosspost from https://stijnbruers.wordpress.com/2025/03/11/how-to-systematically-reduce-wild-animal-suffering-in-the-near-future/ Reducing wild animal suffering is not easy. We need to do more scientific research on how to safely and effectively reduce wild animal suffering (by supporting organizations like Wild Animal Initiative). However, many people who care about wild animal welfare, are impatient and do not want to wait until we have invented technologies to reduce wild animal suffering. For those people, is there something specific that they can do or that they can support right now? Perhaps they can support organizations that directly help wild animals, such as wildlife rescue centers. However, those wildlife rescue centers also help and release predators that are going to harm other wild animals. And suppose one helps starving wild animals by feeding them. If those animals survive, they can reproduce and increase the population of animals, resulting in more competition for food. Eventually some of those newborn animals [...] --- First published: March 11th, 2025 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/mhkLPtoME2cXkwLWk/how-to-systematically-reduce-wild-animal-suffering-in-the --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.