“New donation opportunity: the Center for Wild Animal Welfare” by Ben Stevenson, RichardP

The Center for Wild Animal Welfare (CWAW) is a new policy advocacy organization, working to improve the lives of wild animals today and build support for wild animal welfare policy. We’re now fundraising for our first year, and the next $60,000 will be matched 1:1 by a generous supporter.

We’ve already started engaging policymakers on wild animal-friendly urban infrastructure (e.g. bird-safe glass). In 2026, we plan to keep engaging on urban infrastructure; start working on additional policy areas like fertility control and pesticide policy; and pursue agenda setting (e.g. publishing a State of Wild Animal Welfare Policy report).

Wild animal welfare is one of the world's most important and neglected issues. Governments routinely make decisions that affect trillions of wild animals without considering their individual wellbeing. We want to change this: CWAW is one of the first organizations in the world dedicated to ensuring policymakers consider the individual welfare of wild animals. Our focus on near term policy will help wild animals now, and also build future support by proving that wild animal welfare is a legitimate and tractable policy concern.

CWAW is co-founded by Richard Parr MBE, a former policy adviser to the UK Prime Minister, and Ben [...]

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Outline:

(02:27) Why support wild animal welfare policy?

(07:37) What we've achieved already

(09:38) What we'll do in 2026

(14:51) How will CWAW use marginal funding?

(15:45) Who we are

(16:17) Endorsements

(18:30) How to help

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First published:
November 18th, 2025

Source:
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/uko8rxrcmYB54ZnBH/new-donation-opportunity-the-center-for-wild-animal-welfare

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