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| 2010 || || Publication || Philosopher Oscar Horta's article "Debunking the idyllic view of natural processes" is published.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Horta|first=Oscar|title=Debunking the Idyllic View of Natural Processes: Population Dynamics and Suffering in the Wild|journal=Télos|year=2010|volume=17|issue=1|pages=73–88|url=https://www.stafforini.com/docs/Horta%20-%20Debunking%20the%20idyllic%20view%20of%20natural%20processes.pdf|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20180716083940/https://www.stafforini.com/docs/Horta%20-%20Debunking%20the%20idyllic%20view%20of%20natural%20processes.pdf|archivedate=2018-07-16|deadurl=no}}</ref>
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| 2012 || August || Project || Animal Charity Evaluator is fundedfounded, initialyinitially, during the first year, under the name Effective Animal Activism (EAA). It's funded iss founded by Eitan Fischer as part of the 80,000 Hours organization. Animal Charity Evaluator recognizes RWAS as a high-priority cause area.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160210143030/http://www.animalcharityevaluators.org/about/transparency/history/|title=History {{!}} Animal Charity Evaluators|date=2016-02-10|website=web.archive.org|access-date=2019-07-22}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150918173629/http://www.animalcharityevaluators.org/blog/change-at-eaa/|title=Change at EAA {{!}} Animal Charity Evaluators|date=2015-09-18|website=web.archive.org|access-date=2019-07-22}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://animalcharityevaluators.org/advocacy-interventions/prioritizing-causes/causes-we-consider/|title=Consideration of Cause Areas|website=Animal Charity Evaluators|language=en-US|access-date=2019-07-22}}</ref>
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| 2012 || {{dts|October 30}} || Publication || Brian Tomasik publishes "Medicine vs. Deep Ecology", which responds to the argument that we should not intervene in nature because ecosystems are complex systems.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://reducing-suffering.org/medicine-vs-deep-ecology/|last1=Tomasik|first1=Brian|title= Medicine vs. Deep Ecology |date=30 October 2012|website=Essays on Reducing Suffering|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20180721225125/http://reducing-suffering.org/medicine-vs-deep-ecology/|archivedate=2018-07-21|deadurl=no}}</ref>
| 2017 || {{dts|July 13}} || Publication || Utility Farm publishes "Study: Effective Communication Strategies For Addressing Wild Animal Suffering" by Briana Schulzetenberg and Abraham Rowe, which found that WAS materials describing humans as "stewards of" or "participants in" nature were more effective than materials describing humans as "intervening" in nature.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Schulzetenberg |first1=Briana |title=Study: Effective Communication Strategies For Addressing Wild Animal Suffering |url=https://www.utility.farm/words/2017/7/13/study-effective-communication-strategies-for-addressing-wild-animal-suffering |website=utility farm |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20180622041143/https://www.utility.farm/words/2017/7/13/study-effective-communication-strategies-for-addressing-wild-animal-suffering |archivedate=2018-06-22 |deadurl=no |date=July 13, 2017}}</ref>
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| 2017 || {{dts|October 4}} || Publication || Wild-Animal Suffering Research publishes tze the blog post "We Have No Idea If There Are Cost-Effective Interventions Into Wild-Animal Suffering" by Ozy Brennan.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Brennan |first1=Ozy |title=We Have No Idea If There Are Cost-Effective Interventions Into Wild-Animal Suffering |url=https://was-research.org/blog/no-idea-cost-effective-interventions-wild-animal-suffering/ |website=Wild-Animal Suffering Research |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20180622125316/https://was-research.org/blog/no-idea-cost-effective-interventions-wild-animal-suffering/ |archivedate=2018-06-22 |deadurl=no |date=4 October 2017}}</ref>
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| 2017 || {{dts|October 12}} || Publication || Wild-Animal Suffering Research publishes the blog post "Infant Mortality and the Argument from Life History" by Ozy Brennan.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Brennan |first1=Ozy |title=Infant Mortality and the Argument from Life History |url=https://was-research.org/blog/infant-mortality-argument-life-history/ |website=Wild-Animal Suffering Research |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20180622125324/https://was-research.org/blog/infant-mortality-argument-life-history/ |archivedate=2018-06-22 |deadurl=no |date=12 October 2017}}</ref>
| 2019 || {{dts|January 25}} || Project || Wild-Animal Suffering Research and Utility Farm merge to form the Wild Animal Initiative.<ref>{{cite web|url = https://www.wildanimalinitiative.org/blog/announcing-wai|title = Announcing WIld Animal Initiative|date = January 25, 2019|accessdate = March 29, 2019}} Cross-posted to https://was-research.org/blog/announcing-wild-animal-initiative/ on the Wild-Animal Suffering Research blog and to https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/jzikTHMSpckYg9ZPp/announcing-wild-animal-initiative on the Effective Altruism Forum. See also the associated discussion on Reddit at https://www.reddit.com/r/EffectiveAltruism/comments/ajr27e/announcing_wild_animal_initiative_wildanimal/</ref>
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| 2019 || February 5 || Publication || Johan Lindsjö, Katarina Cvek, Elin M. F. Spangenberg, Johan N. G. Olsson, and Margareta Stéen publishes publish "The Dividing Line Between Wildlife Research and Management—Implications for Animal Welfare".<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Lindsjö|first=Johan|last2=Cvek|first2=Katarina|last3=Spangenberg|first3=Elin M. F.|last4=Olsson|first4=Johan N. G.|last5=Stéen|first5=Margareta|date=2019-02-05|title=The Dividing Line Between Wildlife Research and Management—Implications for Animal Welfare|url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6371958/|journal=Frontiers in Veterinary Science|volume=6|doi=10.3389/fvets.2019.00013|issn=2297-1769}}</ref> <!-- pmc=6371958|pmid=30805350 -->
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| 2019 || February 27 || Publication || Animal Ethics publishes "Welfare biology research: Sexual competition"<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.animal-ethics.org/welfare-biology-research-sexual-competition/|title=Welfare biology research: Sexual competition|last=Ethics|first=Animal|date=2019-02-27|website=Animal Ethics|access-date=2019-07-22}}</ref>
