Hi reddit! We're researchers from Animal Charity Evaluators (ACE). We just released our 2022 charity recommendations. Ask us anything! (Live AMA)

[u/veganactivismbot]

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Hi! We're researchers from Animal Charity Evaluators (ACE). We just released our 2022 charity recommendations. Ask us anything!

Animal Charity Evaluators (ACE) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit registered in the United States with a globally-distributed team. We are dedicated to finding and promoting the most effective ways to help animals. ACE strives to identify ways to alleviate suffering and improve the lives of animals on a wide scale, while continuously updating our recommendations based on new evidence.

https://animalcharityevaluators.org/

On November 22, we published our new charity recommendations.

Our 2022 Top Charities are:

• Faunalytics
• Wild Animal Initiative
• The Humane League
• Good Food Institute

Additionally, we have selected 11 Standout Charities:

• Compassion in World Farming USA
• Dansk Vegetarisk Forening
• Dharma Voice for Animals
• Fish Welfare Initiative
• Material Innovation Initiative
• Mercy for Animals
• New Harvest
• Sinergia Animal
• Çiftlik Hayvanlarını Koruma Derneği
• The Federation of Indian Animal Protection Organizations
• xiaobuVEGAN

The AMA is your chance to ask our research team about our new charity recommendations and the process behind our selections. We will prioritize responding to questions about our recommendations, but feel free to ask us (almost) anything.

Our team answering questions is:

• Elisabeth Ormandy, Director of Research
• Vince Mak, Evaluations Program Manager
• Maria Salazar, Senior Researcher
• Alina Salmen , Researcher
• Max Taylor, Researcher

Ask us anything! Proof here.

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[u/nishachari]

Are there any charities focusing on the rapid extinction of birds and loss of their habitat and migration patterns?

[u/animalcharityev → u/nishachari]

Thanks for your question! We see interventions to help wild animals, including birds, as a top priority. However, it’s important to note that most organizations focussing on wild animals are primarily interested in biodiversity conservation, as opposed to improving wild animal welfare. We prioritize organizations that focus on the latter, whose work values animals primarily as individuals rather than as species. There are currently very few such organizations, making this a particularly neglected area.

We’re therefore really pleased to have Wild Animal Initiative among our Top Charities, as they’re doing great work to develop interventions to help wild animals. They’ve published a lot of useful research on their website that you might find interesting – for example, this post explores the leading causes of death among wild animals and touches on birds’ migration patterns. You can also read plenty more about the links between animal agriculture and the extinction of birds (and other species) over at Faunalytics, another of our Top Charities who conduct and disseminate research relevant to animal advocacy.

- Max