[james_woods]

If you stop buying animal products that lowers the demand for them, so it has long-term effects, donating $100 is a short-term effect.

[Semaphor]

The source [0] of the article makes it sound that no actual, physical animals are being saved, but instead long-term efforts are being undertaken that the evaluators somehow converted to physical animals.

[0]: https://animalcharityevaluators.org/charity-review/the-human...