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A program that probes the mysteries of the animal world through interviews with scientists and other wildlife investigators
The WildLife: Detection Dogs and Wildlife Conservation, Megan Parker
The WildLife with Laurel Neme
1 hour 35 seconds
14 years ago
The WildLife: Detection Dogs and Wildlife Conservation, Megan Parker
Megan Parker, Executive Director and Co-Founder of Working Dogs for Conservation, reveals the secrets of using detection dogs for wildlife conservation. She tells "The WildLife" host Laurel Neme how she trains dogs to detect animals, plants and their seed and scat. Frequently, the dogs uncover what wildlife biologists can't easily see or find, and they do it in a more efficient and non-intrusive way, meaning without baiting, luring, trapping, handling or radio-collaring the animals. She also tells stories of the dogs in action, and shows how her dogs have sniffed out dwindling populations of cheetahs in Kenya, assisted with population surveys of endangered snow leopards in eastern Russia, and uncovered invasive cannibal snails in Hawaii. This episode of The WildLife originally aired on WOMM-LP, The Radiator, 105.9 FM in Burlington, Vermont on January 3, 2011 and was reposted on September 26, 2011.
The WildLife with Laurel Neme
A program that probes the mysteries of the animal world through interviews with scientists and other wildlife investigators