“Animal Ethics: Marginal Funding Request for 2026 Outreach on Neglected Animal Advocacy Topics” by Animal_Ethics

TL;DR Seeking $105k–$180k to sustain and expand three programs: AI & Animals documentary dissemination Wild Animal Suffering documentary Seantience: aquatic animal sentience campaign Marginal funding enables multilingual translations, documentary distribution, campus outreach, technical reports, Asia-focused engagement, and long-term financial stability. Our work targets high-impact, neglected areas with limited existing public-facing resources and strong leverage via early outreach. Funding is used with relative operational frugality: 0–17% fundraising, 66–90% programs depending on tier. Who We Are Animal Ethics is an international organization focused on outreach on neglected domains of sentience: wild animal welfare, invertebrates, aquatic animals, and future sentient beings. We maintain a 2,000-page multilingual library, have given 300+ talks globally, and develop training materials such as a 27-unit course on wild animal welfare and advocacy. In our recent work we emphasize on advocacy in Asia, including collaborations in India, China, and Japan and releases such as the Hindi wild-animal-advocacy course and recent release of our documentary Seantience, as well as a forthcoming documentary on AI and animals. Why These Areas Are Neglected and Important Across animal advocacy, several leverage points remain under-addressed: AI's role in shaping animal outcomes (e.g., embedded value-errors in LLMs, industrial-farming deployment). Wild animal suffering receives minimal institutional attention despite enormous scale; most public resources focus on [...] ---Outline:(00:15) TL;DR(01:06) Who We Are(01:51) Why These Areas Are Neglected and Important(03:06) Our 2026 Plans(03:10) 1. AI & Animals Documentary Dissemination(03:46) 2. Wild Animal Suffering Documentary(04:19) 3. Seantience: Aquatic Animal Sentience Campaign(05:02) Our Funding Gap(05:21) What impact your donation would have? --- First published: November 19th, 2025 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/atd7XDbFY7qFBEZ2r/animal-ethics-marginal-funding-request-for-2026-outreach-on --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

There are no comments yet.

Please log in to write the first comment.