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Dogs Put Their Noses to Work Saving Wildlife

They don’t just detect drugs, bombs, and cancers—dogs can sniff out the amoeba-size larvae of invasive mussels and highly endangered flowers hidden in fields. READ THE FULL ARTICLE HERE

Working Dogs for Conservation May Be The Key to a Greener World

Finding scat samples in the middle of a Costa Rican forest is neither a glamorous nor easy feat, but a Labrador Retriever named Tigre jumped at the opportunity to help.

The Unusual Weapon Yellowstone Is Using To Combat Invasive Species

Zebra and quagga mussels can devastate an ecosystem, and Yellowstone National Park is doing everything it can to keep them out. Most recently, that includes harnessing the power of a dog's snout.

Working Dogs For Conservation: Profile Of Co-Founder, Megan Parker

Nose to the ground, a brown Belgian Malinois with black markings and large pointy ears scans a Missoula, Mont., neighborhood.

Dogs are working to save the world’s endangered species

Dogs are good. They are humanity’s best friends and will work for food. We all know that.

Shelter dogs are helping scientists sniff out world's rarest gorillas

I think we can all agree that dogs are great at everything. Except being bad friends, they're terrible at that...

'Shelter Me' Host Jane Goodall Spotlights Dogs Saving Elephants and Rhinos in Africa

Shelter Me' host and famous primatologist, Jane Goodall spotlights dogs saving elephants and rhinos in Africa...

Foxes and Feces: How Science Saves Species

While people who are familiar with Ciervo-Panoche Natural Area had reported sightings of the endangered San Joaquin kit foxes...

Bear's best friends, Detection dogs help map out bear habitat in Greater Yellowstone

A new method uses “detection dogs,” genetic analysis, and scientific models to assess habitat suitability for bears...

Using dogs to find cats—overcoming the challenges of tracking cheetahs

Cheetahs are Africa's rarest big cat. Only an estimated 7,000 individuals are thought to survive in the wild...

Meet the very good dogs who hunt down invasive species

Lily is a golden retriever from Georgia. Seamus is a border collie from Montana. Together, they are leading a Working Dogs for Conservation team to eradicate an invasive weed...

From rescue to research: training detection dogs for conservation

Conservation and research teams have used detection dogs to locate illegal wildlife products, weapons, invasive...

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