Detection for Good

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...

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

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, ...

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 🙂

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

16/07/2024

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

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

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 :)

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

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

21/02/2024

🦇 As the wind industry in WA starts to expand rapidly, this is really critical stuff.
🦇 I hope we keep the regulation and recommendations up to speed to look after our bats.

Click on the article title to read more.

19/02/2024

An important message! (And we’re very happy King is OK!!)

🔑 as with everything you need to know your dog and trust your instincts!!

🔑 grass seed and foreign body inhalation is a **potentially life threatening emergency** 🚨

09/02/2024

friends!!

03/02/2024

We had an awesome chat today with Kyoko from Conservation Dogs of Hawaii about some of the incredible work they do in Hawai’i and how it could apply to some new programs we are developing locally 🤩 I am super grateful to all my incredible colleagues around the world 🌍 like Kyoko who are always willing to chat about their experiences and help us move important conservation efforts ahead. Mahalo nui Kyoko 🙂

You can see a snapshot of the epic year of cool projects making a difference they have had in the share below 👇 😎

22/01/2024

Props to all the amazing conservation dogs that for wildlife every day!!

08/01/2024

Lovely article written by Romane Detection Dogs for Conservation about conservation dogs 🐕

03/12/2023

Amazing work by Esther and Jesse and their support crews 🤩 The power of detection dogs is just phenomenal!!

Border collie Jessie sniffs out elusive species last seen in 1937 among dunes of South Africa

30/11/2023

Detection = Connection

This work is all about having an incredible connection. We are so lucky 🍀 that the incredible took these great shots of Evie and I working together at a recent workshop. It shows exactly how I feel when I get to work with my dogs and help protect nature at the same time. It really is my happy place.

Part of that is figuring out how your dogs tick! 🤔 ⚙️

Evie loves this ball. She will work for other/any balls 🎾 but this big silly ball 🤪 is her favourite.

What does your dog love? 💚

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17/11/2023

Detection for Good has spent the past week participating in Conservation Detection Dog Workshops in beautiful Cape Otway hosted at the amazing Conservation Ecology Centre

As Albert Einstein said -
“Once you stop learning you start dying”

DFG will always be learning and growing - that’s part of our commitment to ourselves our dogs and conservation 🌱

👀 We had the privilege of watching incredible dog teams both new and experienced from all across Australia showcase their fabulous dogs and connections and develop new skills, and to challenge ourself and improve our own skills.

👏 The best part was doing it with old friends and new and seeing how far so many teams have come in the past year!!

🐉 As a bonus we got to talk dragons with the Zoos Victoria fighting extinction dog squad who are working on the very special Grassland Earless Dragon!

🐸 We got to learn from international reptile and amphibian expert Nicki’s deep experience in searching for hard to find amphibians (sound familiar?) and apply that to our own work!

🌱 I am so grateful for this incredible community of practice and especially to Skylos Ecology who are a never ending source of empowerment and wisdom that helps us grow!

🙏 Thanks to trainers, Louise Wilson Conservation K9 Consultancy and Nikki Glover Amphibian and Reptile Detection Dogs & Unpacked Dog Education & Training for hosting.

14/11/2023

🥹 It means a lot when our clients and collaborators recognise our commitment to welfare.

🦺 One of our core values is the safety of our dogs and the native wildlife we help to conserve and work alongside.

🐉 DFG pride ourselves on putting the welfare of our dogs and the native species we work with first. Our clients & collaborators can trust us to ensure they are safe.

✅ When you are selecting a conservation detection dog team make sure to ask about their safety systems so you can feel confident.

13/11/2023

Listen to Sonny - this place does incredible work.

Who could say no to this face?

Sonny is asking you to donate to Conservation Ecology Centre’s World Kindness Day campaign, supporting all the vital research they do to protect this unique Otways ecosystems.

Sonny loved doing his bit to research feral cats in the Otways, and hopes you can help support the Otway biodiversity too on this day of giving a little kindness.

Donate using the link https://www.conservationecologycentre.org/kindness

13/11/2023

🍀 Evie and I are lucky enough to work together to search for threatened species, including the adorable 🥰 Condamine Earless Dragon 🐉

What are you lucky enough to do with your dogs?! Drop us a note below ⬇️

🎯 Detection for good specialises in detection programs working with threatened species that may require a high level of ecological expertise to devise a training program that works within the ecological and logistical constraints of the project.

Our unique background as both research ecologists and detection dog trainers means we can enhance your research program across the board - and you get a huge amount of value - the cost of just one person gets an experienced ecologist and detection dog handler and trainer (as well as highly trained dogs) in the field with your team ✅

What would you like to see us do next?!

05/11/2023

We’ll be there!! 😍

🤯👏 WOW! What an incredible effort!!! 🤯👏

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⏰ The biggest conservation detection dog event of the year is almost upon us! On Friday 10 November Unpacked Dog Education & Training and Skylos Ecology will be welcoming the first group of participants to the Conservation Detection Dog Workshop.

🗺️ We are incredibly excited to welcome participants from all over Australia. In fact, we designed a map to show just how far and wide you are all coming from. We have representation from Victoria, New South Wales, Queensland, Northern Territory, Western Australia, South Australia and Tasmania!! There are too many observers coming from Melbourne and surrounds to fit into our map, but it’s a great local effort too. ☺️

🙏We want to take the opportunity to thank everyone in advance for making such a big effort to come together. Each one of us will make this event truly special and we really are looking forward to spending time with you all at Conservation Ecology Centre. Thank you to the amazing team at CEC for hosting us all.

🌍 We also want to thank our two trainers Louise Wilson Conservation K9 Consultancy and Nikki Glover Amphibian and Reptile Detection Dogs who are coming all the way from the UK. We really look forward to learning from you both.

🫶 Most of all a massive thank you and appreciation moment to Unpacked, who have been busy organising this mammoth event since the start of the year. Tanya and Leigh have put in so much work to make this a seamless and successful event. Our thanks goes to them for making this all happen. 💙💙

🌿 We can’t wait to welcome everyone next week. We wish you all safe travels from your part of the world and we’ll see you very, very soon in the beautiful Otways. 🦘🐨🐾

05/11/2023

Evie 😍

13/09/2023

🍀 We are lucky enough to be working with an amazing team of ecologists to help support Condamine Earless Dragon research.

At the end of a long day of searching, the team is celebrating finding so many dragons 🐉 in one day.

🚨 A critical part of our safety protocol is to inspect the landscapes and sites at which we are working to make sure all of our crew is safe!

👀 So this week we have been inspecting our detection dog team survey sites to make sure we have all the right procedures in place to keep all our crew - humans and doggos - safe BEFORE we go out for surveys, while supporting broader research and survey efforts for the species.

🔬 We’ve also been working in person with students to make sure everyone is practiced and confident about all the safety procedures, logistics and methods for the research ✅

07/09/2023

🎯 NEW PROJECT ALERT 🚨

We are so super excited to announce that we will be teaming up with some of our favourite 😍 colleagues to help learn more about the habitat and behaviour of the beautiful and mysterious Condamine Earless Dragon 🐉

They are cute and speedy, but their superpower is camouflage! Because they are both super rare and hard to find even when present not much is know about them!

We were lucky 🍀 enough to get a small seed grant from DES working with our wonderful colleagues in the Wildlife Conservation Lab:

🐉 WILDLIFE CONSERVATION LAB: https://www.wildlifeconservationlab.com/dr-april-reside

26/08/2023

So exciting to see detection dogs, and
the work of these amazing committed colleagues featured in the Wall Street journal! Go Amphibian and Reptile Detection Dogs Conservation K9 Consultancy !! 🤩

A big woo hoo to Nikki Glover, Louise Wilson, and Freya, whose work with the Great Crested Newt crossed over the pond to show up in The Wall Street Journal this morning! Nice job ladies! Go detection dogs! 🐾🧡🥰💪🤗

https://www.wsj.com/world/uk/britain-newts-endangered-homeowners-6f0d3b36?st=poi1ms2l9k1kbbn&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

16/08/2023

Super excited to get back together with all these superstars later this year 🤩 see you there!

It is with great pleasure and excitement that we announce, in conjunction with Skylos Ecology, that we are hosting a 3 day Conservation Detection Dog workshop with Louise Elizabeth Wilson from Conservation K9 Consultancy (UK) and Nikki Glover from Amphibian and Reptile Detection Dogs (UK) in November 2023. This unique event is being held at the Conservation Ecology Centre in Cape Otway, Victoria 🌱 🐨

We are now open for expressions of interest by August 30 for working dog teams and observer positions for the workshop on 14 - 16 November 2023. Places are very limited.

To register your interest or for more information, please email [email protected] 🐶

12/08/2023

I was lucky 🍀 enough to be able to join in the field this last week as part of their important work on alligator 🐊 w**d in the nations capital!

Tracy and Oakley have an amazing bond and it truly is a team effort to pinpoint and map any infestations so that they can be managed.

I am so grateful for these amazing human and canine mentors ❤ and super excited to build a w**d program locally!

In addition to benefiting from Tracy’s & Oakleys experience and wisdom, I also had a chance to really get my eye in on Alligator w**d.

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