After a thorough search process and thoughtful consideration, the Board of Directors has selected Mal Graham as the next Executive Director of Wild Animal Initiative.

Conservation offers insight, approaches, and tools that are incredibly valuable to the work of reducing wild animal suffering. It would be highly productive for wild animal welfare advocates to actively work with conservationists on research projects, both to encourage a collaborative relationship between our fields, and to find allies for our work.

Abraham Rowe has resigned from his role as the Executive Director of Wild Animal Initiative, effective June 30th, 2019. We are initiating a search for a new Executive Director better positioned to lead this effort.

In our commitment to fulfill our mission for wild animals, we must also commit ourselves to honoring and upholding the inherent and tremendous value of all humans that we work alongside.

Investigation into the tractability and potential impact of a humane insecticides program is ongoing. Here’s what we know so far.

Today, Wild Animal Initiative released its strategic plan for 2019 and 2020. Here are some highlights of what we will focus on, and how we envision the future of advocating to improve wild animal welfare.

Wild-Animal Suffering Research (WASR) and Utility Farm (UF) are merging to form a new organization focused solely on wild animal welfare — Wild Animal Initiative.