🙏🏾to everyone who reached out during the recent PDS (Particularly Dangerous Situation) Red Flag Alert in WA. All 20 of our dogs & staff are safe. We ran through our fire evacuation protocols in case of a Level 3 evac notice, & thankfully never got the call. Grateful to ALL the wildland firefighters.

Great interview! Direct link: www.opb.org/article/2026...

How some dogs are trained to find native and invasive wildlife

Conservation dogs are used to help find both native and invasive species. We'll hear from two people who help train these dogs.

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🐝 We've been bee-sy! Echo just detected not 1, but 2 bumble bee nests! BB nests are notoriously difficult to find. Every nest our dogs detect helps researchers learn more about where these important pollinators live. We're so proud of Echo helping uncover some of nature's best-kept secrets. 💛🐝

Safety 1st for our #ConservationDogs! Echo & Jax donned their @ruffwear.bsky.social Float Coats for coastal 🐺, 🐻 & puma research w S. Dixon, Marine Specialist 🙏🏾to First Nation “pawtners” for getting our Sniffer Dogs to the rugged shores where they could sniff for data.

We’re volunteering our sniff-pertise for coastal wolf, cougar, & bear research w Pacific Wild. To offset fuel costs for First Nations providing boat transportation for our teams, head to: pacificwild.org/donate/ & select “𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵.” Every dollar matters 🙏🏾🥹🐕

Donate – Your Impact Begins Today

Thank you for helping Pacific Wild protect wildlife and their habitats in the Great Bear Rainforest and beyond. Your support is essential to our success and it is by working together, in partnership w...

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Cute dog pics anyone? This is Echo & Whisper, two of our #conservationcanines who are hot on the sniff for an endangered species. The going is tough, the fieldwork is intense, & searching for data on a rare species in logged old growth makes us sad, but at least our cowoofers are adorable 🥰

Because doing 20-minute paintings of muppets is saving my soul right now. Here's Animal!

Happy Earth Day! 🌎 🐕 Tune in to a LIVE chat with @opb.org featuring @roguedogs.bsky.social cofounders as they talk about our furry pack of rescue dogs turned Conservation Canines, & all the hard work they do for wildlife & the environment. www.opb.org/show/thinkou...

Excited to be presenting at the African Wild Dog United Conference, sharing about our experiences assisting endangered wild dog & big cat research in S. Africa & Mozambique. -Research at Nelson Mandela University w our late #ConservationK9 Scooby 🔗wilddog.org

A beautiful read. Highly suggest everyone who needs a bit of hope these days. 🙏🏽🐾

Ocean Hoptimism@oceanhoptimism.org · 7mo ago

Despair isn’t our destiny — courage, connection, and community are. There’s more possibility than you think if we show up, share the load, and choose action over apathy. Let’s reject hopelessness and keep building the future we want to see. 🌱🔥 #OceanHoptimism #StayInTheWork

Skunk research that our late Conservation Dogs, Chester, Scooby, & Jack worked on, in @highcountrynews.org 👉🏽 "Researchers, who used detection dogs to sniff out skunk scat, found poop full of yellow jacket carcasses, an apparent spotted skunk delicacy." We 🖤 working with M.Tosa for this research🙏🏽🐕🦨

High Country News@highcountrynews.org · 7mo ago

Researchers in the Pacific Northwest knew little about the western spotted skunk, a tiny, elusive critter that roams Western forests. So graduate student Marie Tosa spent two years tracking the species through the Oregon woods, getting sprayed dozens of times in the process. buff.ly/eTqjZM4

Our #ConservationDog, Filson is in a children’s book, 𝘋𝘰𝘨𝘴 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘑𝘰𝘣𝘴 by Andrea Rowe (& even has his own coloring page)! 🥲 We’re so proud of his hard work for wildlife & for inspiring the next generation wildlife biologists. Sniff it out: www.readings.com.au/product/9781...

Squee! Is this not the cutest journal cover ever?! Congrats to M. Delheimer for his photo, & excited for this new research publication alongside @mellenmartin.bsky.social & others. In @esajournals.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1002/ecs2...

ESA Journals@esajournals.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Take a peek—the December cover of "Ecosphere" is here! With a curious marten photographed as part of a recent study that finds these small carnivores have remarkable foraging and diet flexibility across North American forests Browse the issue: esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/21508925...

So excited to have played a part in this research alongside @mellenmartin.bsky.social & others. Martens are near & dear to our fuzzy Wildlife Detection Dog hearts, & they were thrilled to detect samples for this study. 🦦💩 @esajournals.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1002/ecs2...

marie martin@mellenmartin.bsky.social · 8mo ago

And another article featured thanks to Matt Delheimer’s photography of female marten F20 in Lassen NF, California 💗. Huge shoutout to @roguedogs.bsky.social, Matt, and the Levi and Moriarty research programs for collaborative peek into the diets of martens in the PNW and across North America

Our (very!) collaborative look at the lives of carnivores in Yosemite gets a feature thanks to @roguedogs.bsky.social amazing camera work 😊 Yosemite is an ecological and aesthetic marvel!

Oikos@oikosjournal.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Our cover for December! 🦊 Martin et al.(2025) show that species like bobcats, cougars, coyotes, gray foxes, and martens largely avoid each other in space but share surprisingly similar diets—revealing how landscape conditions shape coexistence but also their delicate balance. vist.ly/4h3ks

Having worked w the Forest Rangers on this special project, we can attest firsthand (or 1st 🐾😉) to how amazing this project is. 🐆🙏🏾 "Your gift will support research through camera trap monitoring & scat surveys across 4 of Bhutan’s largest natural areas."

Felidae Conservation Fund@felidaefund.org · 8mo ago

Bhutan’s wild cats face growing pressure from human encroachment. Home to 9 native species (including tigers, snow leopard, and manul), this new project is vital to ensuring their long-term survival.

new pub out — Yosemite is a perfect (and picturesque) place to show how heterogeneity can shape species distributions and foraging patterns. Grateful to Yosemite NP, Levi & Sacks labs & @roguedogs.bsky.social for their collaboration 💗

Oikos@oikosjournal.bsky.social · 11mo ago

🌄🥩Landscape heterogeneity shapes the spatial and diet partitioning of a montane carnivore guild 📷 © Jennifer Hart vist.ly/47zke #Competition #DetectionDogTeam #HierarchicalModeling #HighThroughputSequencing #IntegratedOccupancyModel #NichePartitioning #NonInvasiveSampling

Climbing to new heights for noninvasive wildlife research! Our #ConservationDogs are currently on assignment for endangered Sierra Nevada red fox surveys in the Eastern Sierras. The views are epic, but to get here takes some effort 😅🐾🤘🏽 Work in collaboration w California Dept of Fish & Wildlife

Newsletter Launch! 🚀👩🏽‍🚀: roguedogs.org Join us as we share our Conservation K9's stories: 🐾 Meet the wildlife we sniff for 🧬 Learn about our noninvasive research ⚙️ Revel in our gear reviews 💅🏽 Get pro tips from our Bounders 💝 Squee over our 🐕‍🦺 adoption stories 🐕 Support our conservation efforts

Look what Rogue Ranger found during his wildlife detection surveys! Our dog teams follow the clues to find the data, and sometimes it leads us to fun field finds like this elk shed. Atta boy, Ranger!🦌

Careful you don't get pinched, Jax! Wildlife Dog, Jax, on assignment for 𝗶𝗻𝘃𝗮𝘀𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗘𝘂𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗻 𝗴𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗻 🦀 (𝘊𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘪𝘯𝘶𝘴 𝘮𝘢𝘦𝘯𝘢𝘴) in pawtnership w @noaa.gov Traditional lands of the qʷidiččaʔa·tx̌, Makah Tribe

Penguin poop gives off ammonia, which enhances cloud formation and cools coastal Antarctica, allowing more penguins to poop there, probably. 🐧🧪

Penguin guano is an important source of climate-relevant aerosol particles in Antarctica - Communications Earth & Environment

Penguin colonies emit gaseous ammonia that enhances new particle formation processes in Antarctica, according to online observations of gaseous ammonia and aerosol particles from a coastal site in Ant...

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📣 Help our #ConservationDogs prepare for their "impawtent" role as #Bumblebee Nest Detection Dogs! We're looking for BB nests to teach our dogs the odor! 👇🏽🐝🐕‍🦺

Meet Our pack of Wildlife Detection Dogs!: A field guide to the many furry faces of @roguedogs.bsky.social 👉🏽🐕‍🦺🌍

Happy #EarthDay from our pack of #ConservationDogs. From semi-retired (Filson, L), to new recruit (Echo, R), our dog teams work diligently in service to the environment, detecting data on wildlife. Whatever may come, we are grateful to "pawtner" with such dedicated cowoofers in service to nature 🌎🐕‍🦺

Honored to present at the Endangered Wildlife Trust, African K9s in Conservation Conference 2025. We're sharing the legacy of #ConservationK9 Scooby who spent 2 yrs sniffing for lions, cheetah, leopards & wild dogs in 🇿🇦 & 🇲🇿. Find this research: doi.org/10.1016/j.bi...

🧪 This is *why* our Wildlife Detection Dogs work so hard to detect data of endangered species... It's all about the 💩! 🎥: Sierra Nevada red 🦊 surveys w Dr. Sacks's Mammalian Ecology & Conservation Unit at @ucdavis.bsky.social Veterinary Medicine, featuring our #ConservationK9s, Filson & Whisper.

🧪 @npr.org's #science podcast, Short Wave interviewed @roguedogs.bsky.social's C. Yee about her work alongside #ConservationK9 Jack for orca research! Get the scoop: 💩🐳🎙️ www.npr.org/2025/03/05/1...

How a dog's nose became a powerful tool for science and conservation : Short Wave

On their second job ever, Collette Yee and her partner were assigned a difficult job: locate transient whale poop in the ocean before it sinks. Luckily, Collette was partnered with Jack, a blue heeler...

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Just got our 1st call, likely not the last: one of our wildlife projects is at risk. We rescue shelter 🐕, who 💕 🥎, to find endangered species & support noninvasive wildlife research. That's it. We don’t ask for much. Just the chance to help our natural world. Uncertain times ahead. 😔💙🌎

Here is a sign-on letter for individual scientists and other experts to speak out and protect NOAA. I signed it and I encourage you to sign it as well. secure.ucsusa.org/a/2025-prote... 🌎🧪🦑🐠

Science at Risk: Protect NOAA

Scientists & experts: Add your name to this open letter calling on Congress and the Trump administration to ensure that NOAA and its sub-agencies remain fully funded and staffed, and that the independ...

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