How volunteer conservation dog teams are making a difference

Join Kayla Fratt (K9Conservationist) for a enlightening conservation with Kyoko Johnson and Marlee Monahan (Conservation Dogs of Hawaii), Sally Dickinson (Virginia Tech), and Arden Lumenfall (New York-New Jersey Trail Conference) as we learn about how organizations across the USA are engaging with their communities and using the power of volunteer detection dog teams to help further research and initiatives. Come along as they discuss how volunteers have helped further their causes, how they select dogs, and some of the challenges of using volunteers in the field.

This episode also features a science highlight on hard ticks (Dermacentor albipictus) and the effectiveness of detection dogs vs traditional tick drag survey methods

https://parasitesandvectors.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13071-024-06519-8 

Sally Dickinson - Virginia Tech

Sally’s publications 

https://data.lib.vt.edu/authors/Sally_Dickinson/11235291 

Instagram

https://www.instagram.com/vtcals?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet&igsh=MW5kN2puMzY1MDQ2bg==  

Kyoko Johnson and Marlee Monahan - Conservation Dogs of Hawaii 

Instagram https://www.instagram.com/conservationdogshawaii?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet&igsh=MTIyOTljbzF6bjJ3Yw== 

Website 

https://www.conservationdogshawaii.org/volunteer/ 

Arden Lumenfall - New York-New Jersey trail conference 

Instagram

https://www.instagram.com/nynjtc_conservationdogs?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet&igsh=YWQ5Y3VjcjlsdGs= 

Website

 https://www.nynjtc.org/conservation-dogs/