One reason a comprehensive version of this would be difficult for insect welfare is that a couple of projects are 'undercover'. Rethink Priorities have guidance on donating to insects, shrimp and wild animals that might be relevant.

Separately, I understand @JordanStone has a pretty comprehensive sense of who's who in space governance, and would be a good person to contact if you're thinking about getting into this field.

I'm not at all familiar with Chinese self-driving cars, but just read a NYT article on this topic. Here's a gift link, and a few relevant paragraphs:

China’s regulators finally gave the go-ahead last week to only two of the nine automakers that had submitted plans to sell self-driving cars. And the approvals by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology were narrowly tailored to allow little more than further testing, not mass production.

Beijing Automotive Group and Changan Automobile in Chongqing will be allowed to operate self-driving taxis on three stretches of highway in each company’s hometown, the ministry said, and the taxis will not be allowed to change lanes while under computer control. On any other road, the taxis will need to be under the control of a driver.

The limited programs represent a recognition by the Chinese government that objectives set nearly five years ago, to begin mass production for sale to the general public by the end of this year, were too ambitious.

China’s regulators began to pull back after a crash of a Xiaomi SU7 in late March killed three women, all university students. News of previous accidents involving assisted driving had been suppressed by China’s censors. But news of the crash in March, on a highway in central China’s Anhui Province, spread quickly and widely.

Thanks for your support!

I can imagine some of these forecasts influencing funding and advocacy decisions, especially on neglected species/regions and meat consumption. I'm an animal welfare researcher/advocate (currently, I work for Animal Ask and I'm co-founding the Center for Wild Animal Welfare). Sorry for a late reply!

N.B. We've updated the original post to give more info on how supporters can make tax deductible donations.

In short, we can also accept tax deductible donations from the Netherlands, and above a certain threshold from Canada, Germany and Switzerland. Supporters would need to donate to Rethink Priorities through a supporting org (Giving What We Can in UK/NL; Effektiv Spenden in Germany/Switzerland), then forward their recept to development@rethinkpriorities.org and team@wildanimalwelfare.org and request that the gift is restricted for CWAW. We might be able to facilitate tax deductible donations from other countries too.

If anybody has further questions about this, please reach out :)

Hi Hugh! Thanks for the question.

UK donors who want to claim gift aid can:

1. donate to Rethink Priorities through Giving What We Can (at this link)
2. then forward their receipt to development@rethinkpriorities.org and request that the gift is restricted to CWAW. (please also cc team@wildanimalwelfare.org)
   
   It’s important to do step 2 :)

Thanks for your kind words, Angelina! The $60k is our fundraising target, but we would definitely welcome support beyond that.

We’ll meet our initial budget if we raise $60k, together with $60k in matched funding. Additional funding would be used for stretch purposes (e.g., running public polling, hiring consultants, etc). It would also help us build up a runway for future years, reducing uncertainty. So our priority is to get to $60k, but we’d certainly welcome additional funding.

Strongly upvoted.

Bans on octopus farming are huge: preventing a moral atrocity before it happens.

At Asia for Animals in Taiwan, ALI participated in the first-ever aquatic welfare panel in the conference’s food systems track (opened by Taiwan’s President)

Also: wow!

It's always hard to know whether meta work is cost-effective but if you're excited by pro-animal community-building, I reckon Hive is a promising bet.^[1]

• Global Ambassador Program: Our newest initiative provides targeted, culturally-sensitive support for advocates in underserved and underfunded regions, starting with Asia and Latin America.

Here's a blog post/interview with Angel, the Asia Ambassador. I've been pleased to see this program take off (although I've not followed implementation very closely), and I'd be excited to see it expand next year, especially in Africa.

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   I'm a bit biased as a friend of Hive, but I'm friend because I think they do good work!

Another relevant article is this RP report, which argues "Knowing a group of organisms produce many offspring, have high mortality rates, small body size and are short-lived is not sufficient to determine that their lives are a net negative (or positive)".