News & Press
From the field, the lab, and the lectern.
Programme updates, research notes, and a record of where we've been raising the issue.
Third operator joins the Humane Quarrying Initiative
A mid-sized aggregate producer has adopted fracture-plane cleaving across its primary face, bringing the programme to three active partner sites.
Working Paper 03 released: two-envelope problems in moral-weight estimation
Our latest paper examines a subtle difficulty in comparing rock moral weight against established cause areas, and what it means for our headline figures.
"Where does the moral circle stop?" — our talk at a welfare research forum
Our director presented the expected-value case for rock welfare to an audience that was, by show of hands, 4% convinced and 100% unable to identify the flaw.
Rock Rewilding reaches eleven returned boulders
A glacial erratic displaced during road works has been returned to within forty metres of its surveyed original position.
Cairn Reduction signage now at fourteen trailheads
New partner trails carry our message discouraging recreational rock stacking, framed around both ecology and lithic welfare.
The Rock Welfare Project is founded
We open our doors with a single conviction: that the most numerous potential moral patients on Earth deserve at least to be considered.