HAWAIʻI ANIMAL ADVOCACY

Media Kit | 2026

Humane, science-based solutions for community cats, wildlife protection, and public health

🌐 HawaiiAnimalAdvocacy.org
📍 Hawaiʻi County, Hawaiʻi
🎙 Media Contact: Greg Baker, Founder & Spokesperson


1️⃣ ORGANIZATION OVERVIEW

Hawaiʻi Animal Advocacy (HAA) is a Hawaiʻi-based nonprofit organization advancing humane, evidence-based solutions for managing community cats while protecting native wildlife and public health.

HAA works at the intersection of animal welfare, conservation, and policy, focusing on replacing ineffective feeding bans and reactive enforcement with targeted Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR) and accountable community-based management programs.

Our work emphasizes:

  • Measurable population reduction

  • Reduced wildlife conflict

  • Improved public-health outcomes

  • Transparency and accountability

  • Alignment with Hawaiʻi values and Aloha ʻĀina

Core principle: Humane policy is effective policy.


2️⃣ THE ISSUE — AT A GLANCE

The Problem

Hawaiʻi is increasingly relying on feeding bans, starvation, and removal to manage community cats — policies that do not reduce populations and often increase harm to animals, wildlife, and communities.

Why These Policies Fail

  • Feeding bans do not stop reproduction

  • Removal creates a vacuum effect

  • Starving cats roam farther and hunt more

  • Enforcement punishes caregivers, not outcomes

What Works

  • Targeted, managed Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR)

  • High sterilization coverage

  • Stable, monitored colonies

  • Focus on actual conflict areas


3️⃣ KEY FACTS 

Population Control

  • TNR is the only approach consistently shown to reduce free-roaming cat populations over time

  • Managed colonies often experience 30–70% population decline

Wildlife Protection

  • Sterilized, managed cats roam less and hunt less

  • Stable colonies reduce predation pressure compared to starving or destabilized populations

Public Health

  • Risk is highest in unmanaged, high-turnover populations

  • Preventing reproduction reduces long-term environmental risk

Bottom line: Unmanaged cats are a problem. Managed cats are a solution.


4️⃣ PUBLIC HEALTH & TOXOPLASMOSIS

Cats typically shed Toxoplasma gondii only once, during a brief initial infection window (often about 1–3 weeks). The greatest environmental risk comes from unmanaged populations with ongoing reproduction, where new kittens are continually born and exposed, creating more first-time shedders over time.

Trap-Neuter-Return reduces this risk by preventing reproduction, stabilizing colonies, and shifting populations toward sterilized adult cats who are far less likely to be in the shedding window. Policies that destabilize colonies can increase turnover and undermine public-health goals.


Key takeaway:

Toxoplasmosis risk is driven by reproduction — stopping reproduction reduces risk.


5️⃣ SPOKESPERSON

Greg "Pu'uwai Aloha" Baker

Founder & Spokesperson, Hawaiʻi Animal Advocacy

Short Bio (TV / Radio):
Greg Baker is the founder of Hawaiʻi Animal Advocacy, a nonprofit advancing humane, science-based solutions for community cat management while protecting native wildlife. He brings years of hands-on TNR experience and policy analysis grounded in Hawaiʻi values and accountability.

Expertise

  • Community cat population dynamics

  • Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR)

  • Wildlife conflict mitigation

  • Public health risk reduction

  • Hawaiʻi animal and land-use policy


6️⃣ APPROVED QUOTES

  • “Starving cats doesn’t make them disappear — it makes the problem worse.”

  • “Feeding bans punish caregivers, not cats, and they fail at population control.”

  • “The evidence shows management reduces harm — starvation doesn’t.”

  • “We can protect native birds without cruelty.”

  • “Unmanaged cats are a risk; managed cats are a solution.”


7️⃣ COMMON QUESTIONS — QUICK ANSWERS

Do cats threaten native birds?
Protecting native birds is essential. The evidence shows starvation and feeding bans fail, while managed TNR reduces populations and conflict over time.

Does feeding attract more cats?
Reproduction drives population growth, not food. Feeding paired with sterilization stops growth.

Why not remove or euthanize cats?
Large-scale removal repeatedly fails due to the vacuum effect and is costly, controversial, and unsustainable.


8️⃣ VISUAL ASSETS AVAILABLE

  • Hawaiʻi-based community cat photography

  • Before-and-after TNR colony visuals

  • Educational infographics

  • Policy and habitat maps

  • Logos (light & dark)


9️⃣ MEDIA AVAILABILITY

Hawaiʻi Animal Advocacy is available for:

  • Interviews (TV, radio, print, digital)

  • Background briefings

  • Data and study references

  • Policy and legislative context

Contact:

Greg "Pu'uwai Aloha" Baker
Founder & Spokesperson

🌐 HawaiiAnimalAdvocacy.org
Email: [email protected]
Phone:  808.747.4134