This audio describes how welfare biology would be in multidisciplinary field and describes potential areas of collaboration with conservation fields. The fields of "compassionate conservation" and "conservation welfare" appears similar to welfare biology and there are potential points of collaboration. However, they are ultimately distinct in that they have mainly conservationist goals, rather than being focused on the well-being of individuals, as welfare biology would be.

In this course about wild animal suffering, you'll learn about the  plight of animals living in the wild. Find out what the lives of the  most numerous animals — invertebrates — are actually like and get an  overview of evidence of their sentience (consciousness). Hear what the  contemporary debates in animal ethics are and how they relate to showing  moral consideration for nonhuman animals. Find out about a proposed  field of research called welfare biology, the study of the wellbeing of  animals living in the wild.