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Conservation dogs are making a difference in conservation through their noninvasive ability to detect elusive species in the wild, flag illegal wildlife trade products, and help poachers fight wildlife crime. Whether you work with conservation dogs, you're interested in incorporating them into your work, or you just want to learn about how dogs can support and enhance conservation technology's effectiveness, you're in the right place!

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List of grant opportunities for conservation dogs

Yvan Satgé

14 May 2018 9:48pm

Dear all, Do you know of any grants offered to train/provide environmental NGOs with conservation/detection dogs? I am involved in the International Black-capped Petrel...

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Heath623

27 April 2019 5:22pm

Just learned about this community and am super excited to see it exists. I wanted to comment on Conservation Canines (CK9). I served as the coordinator for CK9 for 18 years. The majority of CK9, including myself and its 17 dogs, have broken off and are trying to get a new program set up called Rogue Detection Teams! We are just getting our paws under us but we are all super excited to be unleashed from the University and embarking on a grand new adventure. Rogue Detection Teams can be reached at contact@roguedogs.org and also found on Facebook @roguedogs and IG and Twitter at @roguedetection. We have a website in the works at Roguedogs.org but it is not up just yet. Looking forward to being a part of the community. Dogspeed!

Jennifer Hartman

3 January 2020 7:17pm

Hi Yvan, My name is Jennifer Hartman and I work with Rogue Detection Teams, a program that works with and instructs conservation detection dog teams. Did you ever receive enough information to pursue your project? If not, one, we'd love to learn of more opportunities ourselves, as we have many conservation projects that we would like to support and are unable to. Additionally, we have recently learned about a group, Midwest Conservation Dogs who just received a grant to train a new dog. I think it was a local grant but we're sure that they would be more than hh=appy to discuss with you how they received their grant. Most of our projects that we conduct, and we have worked on storm petrel burrows in Haida Gwaii, British Columbia, come from government funding or special program fudning (some past partners include The Nature Conservancy, World WIldlife Fund, various univeristies, etc.). We're happy to discuss how we might help to get your project off the ground, or if you have already conducted it, we'd love to learn how it went and how you were able to fund it. We can be reached at contact@rogueddogs.org or our website is at roguedogs.org. Warm regards in the New Year, Jennifer 

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Reptile Detector Dogs

Stephanie O'Donnell

8 August 2016 11:35am

I was fascinated to discover that detector dogs can be used to locate difficult to find snakes: E.Kingsnake-looking ALL year for one! Amid the roots in a fallen tree&...

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Yvan Satgé

14 May 2018 9:37pm

Hi Steph and all,

I don't work with detector dogs directly but colleagues of mine in the Pedernales province of the Dominican Republic have used a dog to locate iguana nests in a dry environment. Iguana nests (which are underground) can be found by looking for a typical hole in the ground; unfortunately, a local species of spider makes a very similar hole, which make iguana nest searches difficult (since you don't want to break the nest open) and time-consuming. Biologists at Grupo Jaragua, a Dominican environmental NGO, thus trained a dog to successfuly smell for iguana nests. 

Their dog sadly died after eating poison intended to kill stray dogs but did find a number of iguana nests for several years.

- Yvan

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Detection dogs used for border control

Katrin Pfeil

5 April 2018 12:51pm

Hi community, We have started a detection dog programme to detect Saiga horn and support border control in Kazakstan. This programme has been started from scratch with...

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Megan Parker

26 April 2018 4:43pm

Hi Katrin,

We are working with Panthera in Kyrgyztan on wildlife trafficking at the border. I believe you may be in touch with the program? We have helped Border patrol layer on snow leopard, argali and saiga as well as falcons.  I would be happy to put you in touch with Aimee Hurt, who has worked there with the teams.  Or you can reach out to Tanya Rosen with Panthera to ask about that program. We are happy to help share experience.

 

Best, Megan

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Assessment of Detection and Tracking Dog Programs in Africa

Rachel Kramer

5 April 2016 7:43pm

For those who may not be aware, Working Dogs for Conservation (with support from the Elephant Crisis Fund) published a really valuable assessment in 2015 of detection and tracking...

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Marie Mainil

15 April 2016 5:45pm

Hi Rachel, the link seems to be broken, fyi.

 

Marie

 
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