Conservation Dogs: The UK’s Best Conservation dogs is an innovative, pioneering and unique sister company to Wagtail UK Ltd. Our dogs have many years of field experience locating scats, carcasses, wildlife and assisting in surveys and species identification. It is the UK’s leading supplier of wildlife detection dogs for the UK and International operations, to assist with conservation needs and ecological surveys. Carcass Detection Every species of bat is protected under EU law. Their protection is not only a necessity but a requirement. Conducting surveys into their mortality rates is common place around wind turbines, new roads and building construction. We have multiple dog teams available to cover large areas searching for bat carcasses; locating, collecting, storing and recording all relevant information using a well planned and executed methodology. We can also conduct searcher efficiency trials, allowing the client to test the effectiveness of the dogs in the detection of bat carcasses. Last year, we were involved in 16 separate efficiency trials, in different landscapes across the UK. Our dogs proved to be over 90% effective at detecting bat carcasses. Product of Animal Origin Detection We have formed detection dog units and handler training in Gabon and Tanzania in the fight against wildlife poaching. Elephant ivory, iboga root, bush meat, shark fin, pangolin scales, and animal pelts are highly prized items for poachers. Our dogs are not only trained to detect the items at train stations, road blocks and airports, but they can also track poachers from a recent kill Scat Detection One of the most effective ways of determining population sizes in areas and the success of reintroduction projects for elusive species, is to perform DNA tests on animal scats. Here at Conservation dogs we have trained a detection dog to locate scats of pine martens, and conducted discrimination training on other ‘similar’ scats to ensure it is only pine marten scats that the dog detects. As pine martens choose to follow pathways through woodland, the dog and handler teams will walk the paths through chosen areas and GPS locate and collect any scats detected by the dog. This service can be replicated for any chosen species Live Animal Detection Clearing areas of protected and endangered species can be costly and time consuming. We have trained detection dogs that can make this process more efficient and effective. Great Crested Newts (GCN) are a protected species, and so their disturbance or destruction is illegal. GCNs are protected under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981, and GCNs are also classified as European Protected Species (EPS) under The Conservation of Habitats and Species Regulations 2010. GCNs on construction sites have to be trapped and relocated to ponds away from any building work. Clearing areas of protected and endangered species can be costly and time consuming. Working closely with the construction industry and ecologists, our specially trained detection dogs can make this process quicker, more efficient and more cost effective. Our detection dog can assist construction companies and ecologists in the locating of GCNs for removal whilst trapping out, as well as identifying areas where newts might be (rock piles/log piles etc) that may have had to be hand searched, therefore speeding up the process of safe removal.
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