These 'conservation' dogs can sniff out invasive plants and endangered species the size of a nickel

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These 'conservation' dogs can sniff out invasive plants and endangered species the size of a nickel
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What she happened upon was the then nascent field of using dogs for ecological scent detection."A marriage made in heaven for me," Oliver said.At that time, her sidekick was a working dog rescued from a county shelter named George.

"All of a sudden finding poop was really valuable, and that's where the dogs really took off," Fratt said, because the technology made more ecological research to be done through fecal-only surveys possible. And all it took a handful of expertly trained dogs and their handlers — something unimaginable just three decades ago.

From that starting point of using scat for ecological monitoring of endangered and rare animals, WD4C expanded to other areas: anti-poaching detection; finding invasive plants and species known in the conservation field as biosecurity; and environmental justice, like

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