"Saving the Planet One Dog at a Time" using specially trained detection dogs to assist wildlife conservation efforts! www.dogsforconservation.org
Dogs have been trained to detect the following:
• Black-footed ferrets
• Brown tree snakes
• Gypsy moths
• Screwworm pupae/larvae
• Termites
• Bed bugs
• Fire Ants
• Bird and Bat Mortality at wind farms
• Individual Siberian Tigers
• Desert Tortoise
• Brown and Black Bear
• Kit Fox
• Fisher
• Bobcat
• Wolves
• Coyotes
• Lynx
• Spotted Knapweed Invasions
• Ringed Seal lairs and breathing holes
• Ki
09/15/2023
1st of its kind footage shows guard dogs saving sheep from puma attack on a pitch black mountain The footage of a puma hunting sheep was captured with thermal imaging cameras in the Patagonian wilderness as part of a new National Geographic show.
08/22/2022
08/20/2022
Very very cool!
Texas A&M-Corpus Christi Trains Dogs to Detect Crude Oil on Gulf Coast Beaches Texas A&M-Corpus Christi Trains Dogs to Detect Crude Oil on Gulf Coast Beaches Richard Guerrero July 26, 2022 CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas – Man’s best friend has long earned its keep in service to humans when it comes to hunting, herding, providing protection, or assisting in searches. Now, a few visi...
01/14/2022
Go boy go!!
Filson the Dog Is Helping Track a Bee Nobody Has Seen in 15 Years Filson, the dog, has a real nose for science.
11/03/2021
Rest In Peace Tula 🐾
10/30/2021
How Dogs Can Help Find—and Protect—Endangered Animals A growing group of trained detection dogs and their handlers are being called to assist global conservation efforts.
10/25/2021
Bravo Rogue Detection Teams and my boy 👏👏👏
A Nose for Science: Conservation Dogs May Help in Search for Endangered Franklin’s Bumblebee • The Revelator Handlers hope a mutt named Filson can help sniff out an endangered pollinator no one has seen in 15 years.
07/22/2021
So proud of cover dog Filson!!
Are Wind Turbines a Danger to Wildlife? Ask the Dogs. Humans are terrible at finding bats and birds killed by wind turbines. Dogs are great at it.
06/16/2021
Detection dogs in nature conservation: A database on their world‐wide deployment with a review on breeds used and their performance compared to other methods Over the last century, dogs have been increasingly used to detect rare and elusive species or traces of them. The use of wildlife detection dogs (WDD) is particularly well‐established in North Ame...