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Featured in Domain Arrivals · 2026-08-14

The Countdown Project Starts Counting Hawaiʻi’s Dog-Overpopulation Problem

countdownproject.org ↗ · Civic & Public Life · score 84.0
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A Hawaiʻi-based project documenting dog overpopulation island by island, with public estimates, local intake figures, intervention plans, and operating costs.

Why it surfaced

The project treats an island-specific animal-welfare problem as a public accounting exercise: it publishes figures such as an estimated 15,000 animals in difficult circumstances on Hawaiʻi Island, 1,200 annual humane-society intakes, and 7,500 free surgeries in 2025. Its promise to publish the numbers, methodology, invoices, and quarterly progress makes this more than a fundraising landing page—and the explicit starting point of zero funded surgeries leaves a clear story to revisit.

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This is one of 1,000 discoveries in the 2026-08-14 Domain Arrivals issue.