Wildlife Detection Dogs Online Conference
The Wildlife Detection Dogs Conference from Conservation K9 Consultancy will bring together students, handlers, ecologists and researchers to find out more about the use of wildlife detection dogs in conservation, wildlife monitoring, research and ecology.
Our goal is to improve our collective understanding of how dogs can be used to help improve conservation.
The Wildlife Detection Dogs Conference is Hosted by Conservation K9 Consultancy & Wildlifetek
OUR CONFERENCE SPEAKERS
LOUISE WILSON
CONSERVATION K9 CONSULTANCY
KAREN DEMATTEO
GOT SCAT
PAUL BUNKER
CHIRON K9
FIONA JACKSON & TRACY LYTEN
SKYLOS ECOLOGY PTY LTD
VICKI HUDSON
CAPE NATURE
ANNEGRET GRIMM-SEYFARTH
HELMHOLTZ-CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH
Annegret has a PhD in Ecology from the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research. Since 2010, she has worked with wildlife detection dogs researching the use and efficacy of detection dogs for wildlife population monitoring across Europe and Australia.
MEGAN PARKER
CENTRE FOR LARGE LANDSCAPE CONSERVATION
SIMONE MUELLER
WILDLIFE DETECTION DOGS E.V.
Simone is a certified dog trainer, dog behaviour consultant and owner of the Training4Paws Dog School near Heidelberg, Germany, specialising in force-free anti-predation training and is the author of the two books of the Predation Substitute Training series “Hunting Together” and “Rocket Recall”.
CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
DAY 1: Saturday Jan 29
9:30 - Conference Welcome ~ Louise Wilson & Dr Kayleigh Fawcett Williams
10:00 - Understanding and meeting the welfare needs of wildlife detection dogs ~ Sam Gaines
10:30 - The reality of being a conservation detection dog handler ~ Rachael Flavell
10:45 - Great crested newt (Triturus cristatus) detection dogs ~ Nikki Glover
11:00 - How many hogs can a hog dog find if a hog dog could find hogs? ~ Lucy Bearman-Brown
11:30 - The Foundations of Interactive Toy Play ~ Craig Ogilvie
12.30 - Questions, Discussion & Session Close ~ Louise Wilson & Dr Kayleigh Fawcett Williams
15:00 - Is there a manual for training conservation detection dogs? ~ Karen DeMatteo
16:00 - Sniffing out Bumblebee Nests: Learnings from the Field ~ Laura Holder
16:30 - Evaluating Canine Detection of Invasive Mussel Veligers ~ Nathaniel Hall
17:30 - Keep it simple ~ Heath Smith
18:30 - Questions, Discussion & Session Close ~ Louise Wilson & Dr Kayleigh Fawcett Williams
20:30 - Panel sessions
22:00 - End of day 1
DAY 2: Sunday Jan 30
9:30 - Conference Welcome ~ Louise Wilson & Dr Kayleigh Fawcett Williams
10:00 - Dogs From Down Under: An overview on use of conservation dogs in Australia ~ Fiona/Tracy Skylos Ecology
10:30 - Tapping into a Tortoise’s eau de Toilette: the use of Conservation Detection Dogs for mark recapture research on the Geometric Tortoise (Psammobates geometricus) in South Africa ~ Vicki Hudson
11:00 - Detection dogs in conservation projects – a review ~ Annegret Grimm-Seyfarth
11:30 - The use of conservation detection dogs in consultancy ~ Luke Gorman
11:45 - Harness your Hunter through Predation Substitute Training ~ Simone Mueller
12.30 - Questions, Discussion & Session Close ~ Louise Wilson & Dr Kayleigh Fawcett Williams
15:00 - Working Dogs in South Georgia ~ Megan Vick/Ross James/Naomi Cordeiro
15:30 - From Imprinting to Field Deployed - Lessons Learnt from Training to Surveys ~ Paul Bunker
16:00 - The process of managing a conservation detection dog study – stories from the field, the office and everything in between ~ Denise Karp
16:30 - The field of conservation detection dogs, where we started and where we can go ~ Megan Parker
17:30 - Questions, Discussion & Session Close ~ Louise Wilson & Dr Kayleigh Fawcett Williams
18:30 - End of day 2
CONFERENCE REPLAY TICKETS
Did you miss it live? You can catch the replay now!
STANDARD
£47
Includes:
- 30 day access to over 12 hours of conference recordings
- Easy access on your desktop, laptop or tablet via our password-protected site or on the go via your smartphone in our app.
- Conference Resource Pack