Detection for Good

Detection for Good Detection Dogs for conservation, making a difference for nature on sniff at a time!

Get in quick Canberra crew!!
07/10/2024

Get in quick Canberra crew!!

Oakley, the skilled sniffer dog, will return to Canberra to help celebrate Lake Burley Griffin’s 60th anniversary.

07/10/2024

Can’t wait to see the results from this amazing project. Paul is an incredible trainer and poppy is a very special dog 🐶

If you are getting started and want to develop your skills this is another great opportunity! Robin is a wonderful coach...
02/10/2024

If you are getting started and want to develop your skills this is another great opportunity! Robin is a wonderful coach 🙂

The K9Sensus Detection Dog Trainer Academy is a comprehensive program specifically designed to equip owner/handler/trainers with the fundamental skills necessary for success in canine detection. Whether you aim to work with in the private sector, train your own sport detection dog, or enhance your k...

01/10/2024

Detection for good is seeking a volunteer/intern.

The candidate would be expected to be available IN PERSON in Perth for approximately 5 hours per week, although the specific times/days are relatively flexible.

No experience is required, but some knowledge of scentwork and/or training skills and an interest in conservation are a bonus. Activities would include but would not be limited to assiting with the collection of data, assisting with efficiency trials, hide setting, preparing and cleaning training aids and materials, husbandry, fitness, set up and pack down, videography. Must be over 16 years of age.

In exchange we are able to offer mentoring in your choice of ecology, training, canine fitness or detection, and one working or audit spot at a detection workshop.

If you are interested please DM me for further information.

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A really fantastic threatened plant 🌱 detection project implemented by our friends and co-Conservation Dog Alliance foun...
26/09/2024

A really fantastic threatened plant 🌱 detection project implemented by our friends and co-Conservation Dog Alliance founding members at k9inSCENTive, LLC

When all you have is a hammer, Abraham Maslow once noted, everything looks like a nail. Similarly, when all you have are a bunch of botanists, everything looks like a pediocactus.

Wow 🤩 what an amazing trip we had! As we wrap up our part in the dragon 🐉 fieldwork for this season, i have a few MASSIV...
26/09/2024

Wow 🤩 what an amazing trip we had!

As we wrap up our part in the dragon 🐉 fieldwork for this season, i have a few MASSIVE thankyou’s - and I think the list really highlights that conservation is a team effort.

The Qld Government provided funding for this research, without which it wouldn’t be happening.

The dragon team is not just us - there is a wonderful research crew including first and foremost the UQ wildlife conservation lab crew - especially my main field crew Laura Harms and Emilee Laine, all of our volunteers, and the labs fearless leader April, as well as JP Emery at USQ who always goes out of his way to line up the fieldwork and USQ student Callum who is working on tracking dragon movements with JP. When we all work together we can help limited conservation funds go farther!!

And it’s not just the core team! The wider dragon family are so incredibly supportive and we just could not do it without them 🙂

First up - did you see our shiny decked out Hilux this year?! A MASSIVE SHOUT OUT to Jim and Jenni Reside who donated the use of their incredibly well set up field vehicle and all the accompanying kit for this field season to keep us safe, mobile, and able to deploy two teams - we are so grateful!!

Another big thankyou to the Harms family who hosted us in transit and provided all the camping gear for our Evie friendly field camp.

Last but definitely not least the Ringma family who are an amazing support crew - providing off season gear storage, airport pickups and transport, driving all the way to Pittsworth with a drill, helping us out with vehicle cleandown, and sourcing and donating the model dragons we are using for our detection experiments - thanks Frank & Ainsley Ringma 🙂

We are also super grateful to all the wonderful community in the Darling Downs who love the dragons 🐉 as much as we do and I hope they know how much we love dragon country! Thanks for allowing us access to your land, showing us around, sharing your systems and knowledge, keeping an eye out for dragons and always stopping to say hi 👋 - as well looking out for us by letting us know when there is baiting to keep Evie safe, and giving us a heads up about surprise weather!

There is something special about these little beasts that brings everyone together and we are so lucky 🍀 to be a part of it.

If you’d like to support our work, you can donate to our research collaboration with the Wildlife Conservation Lab here:

https://donations.uq.edu.au/wildlifeconservation

Just write ✍️ in the box Evie, Detection Dog or DFG to be sure it goes to our collaborative program 🙂

AND keep your eyes peeled for 🐉 gear coming soon ⚙️!!

April Reside Laura Harms Ainsley Ringma Jim Reside

Pretty dragon and Evie photos 📸 thanks to Emilee Laine Photography 🤩

Check out this cool 😎 story about Sho and her electronics detection dog Koda. Koda is pretty special :)
13/09/2024

Check out this cool 😎 story about Sho and her electronics detection dog Koda. Koda is pretty special :)

OH. EM. GEE. I am SUPER excited that I have the chance to host the AMAZING Robin Gruebel of the K9Sensus Foundation in m...
09/08/2024

OH. EM. GEE.

I am SUPER excited that I have the chance to host the AMAZING Robin Gruebel of the K9Sensus Foundation in mid-April next year.

That's right, you heard it correctly, Robin is willing to leave the mini-donkeys and her detection crew just to visit us!!

I am extending an Expression of interest to determine whether there will be enough interest to go ahead. If you are interested in attending, please fill in the form below!

If you have a group and you would like to tailor a specific day for your group, please reach out to me directly!

Detection for Good are very excited to have the opportunity to host Robin Gruebel in Perth in mid-late April 2025!!! Robin trains and mentors students in a range of working detection disciplines and well as inspiring nosework students. Search and Rescue legend, SWDI Master Trainer, she has also trai...

SUCH AN IMPORTANT MESSAGE! Our dogs are members of our team. An incredibly important part of our jobs is to keep them sa...
09/08/2024

SUCH AN IMPORTANT MESSAGE!

Our dogs are members of our team. An incredibly important part of our jobs is to keep them safe. Just like our people, we make sure that we have a plan to keep them safe in everything we do.

🐕 We all know our dogs will do anything to please us. But just because they will, doesn’t mean they should.

🛡️ As conservation dog handlers, it’s important to be good guardians for our detection dogs and not ask them to do anything that puts them at risk.

⛑️ Whilst we strive to do the best job possible and collect the vital data that helps important conservation efforts, we should never do it at the expense of our dogs’ safety and welfare.

🏡 After all, the most important part of any survey is making sure everyone gets home safe at the end of the day.

Our dogs’ trust us. Let’s live up to their faith in us.

26/07/2024
If you missed it, you can watch the CDA informational webinar recording here :)
21/07/2024

If you missed it, you can watch the CDA informational webinar recording here :)

Our founding members at Chiron K9 LLC, Conservation Dogs Collective, Conservation Dogs of Hawaii, Detection for Good, New York-New Jersey Trail Conference, ...

Some answers to Questions that came up in the very very early webinar this morning about the Conservation Dog Alliance a...
20/07/2024

Some answers to Questions that came up in the very very early webinar this morning about the Conservation Dog Alliance and yes, it was recorded and just as soon it is uploaded I will post a link 🔗

Also CDA now has Facebook Insta and YouTube 🙂

Our friends at Skylos and the super noses of dogs highlighted in bioGraphic 📸 Doug Gimesy Photography ft. Tracey and Sas...
16/07/2024

Our friends at Skylos and the super noses of dogs highlighted in bioGraphic
📸 Doug Gimesy Photography ft. Tracey and Sassy Rassy 🖤

With their astounding sense of smell and ability to find what humans can’t see, dogs are quickly becoming some of conservationists’ best friends. See our new Spotlight for more: bit.ly/3zD0E0S 📷 Douglas Gimesy

A really important piece about how we can keep green energy green by Australasian Conservation Dog Network founding memb...
16/07/2024

A really important piece about how we can keep green energy green by Australasian Conservation Dog Network founding member Emma Bennett

Australia’s freshwater turtles are getting smashed by foxes 🦊 All species living in fox affected areas are impacted but ...
09/06/2024

Australia’s freshwater turtles are getting smashed by foxes 🦊 All species living in fox affected areas are impacted but our poor turtles 🐢 are adapted for our highly variable climate rather than the highly effective mammalian predators that is the fox.

Turtle’s long lives may be masking extent of loss of young and eggs, experts say, with estimates that one species has declined in population by 90% or more

Look at all the amazing things our Kelpie detection friends are up to! Hopefully we'll have a kelpie friend one day soon...
07/06/2024

Look at all the amazing things our Kelpie detection friends are up to! Hopefully we'll have a kelpie friend one day soon :)

The university did a nice little write up about our work on Condamine Earless Dragons 🐉 to help solve the conservation p...
12/04/2024

The university did a nice little write up about our work on Condamine Earless Dragons 🐉 to help solve the conservation puzzle for this species and the whole northern complex of these awesome little beasts 🤩

We work together with an awesome team of people and technology 💚

Remote cameras and conservation dogs will be deployed as part of a research project aiming to conserve four threatened Queensland reptile species. 🐶🦎

More: https://tinyurl.com/s7m9m7se
📸 Detection for Good

Some really great work from our lovely colleagues in Northern Ireland - looking for award to the white paper even more 🙂...
23/02/2024

Some really great work from our lovely colleagues in Northern Ireland - looking for award to the white paper even more 🙂

Well done!

At last, our first paper from our little lab group is finally published!

This paper discusses how we can improve the studies being published using conservation detection dogs as an industry. Please do share as it is open access. This will be followed shortly by a white paper from Ecology Detection Dogs Working Group to help you put some of the recommendations in the paper into action.

Well done Beth for writing a fantastic piece of work, and thanks to Nicola for the help and support getting it ready for publication. We also had some brilliant feedback from reviewers that improved this paper immensely, thank you!

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ece3.10866

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