Animals

Fund research into wild animal welfare

Wild Animal Initiative is a research organisation dedicated to understanding and improving the welfare of wild animals, funding and conducting scientific research and working to get welfare science incorporated into conservation and land-management decisions. It has been named an Animal Charity Evaluators Recommended/Top Charity for several consecutive years, including in ACE's official 2025 recommendations.

Run by Wild Animal Initiative
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Our take

Distinct from every other animal charity on this site, which mostly fund direct intervention — rescue, anti-poaching, farm-welfare campaigns. This funds the underlying science of wild-animal welfare itself, a newer and more speculative field that ACE's evaluators have repeatedly judged worth funding further.

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