Wild animals experience enormous amounts of suffering from predation, parasitism, disease, and starvation that are rarely considered in conservation.
The naturalistic fallacy assumes wild animal lives are inherently good. In reality, wild animals experience chronic suffering from parasites, starvation during droughts, predator attacks that do not immediately kill, and disease. A single zooplankton species produces millions of offspring, nearly all of whom die young from predation or starvation. The scale of suffering in nature vastly exceeds that caused by human activity.