Meet Bear, the koala detection dog that’s been deployed to sniff out the iconic marsupial in fire ravaged areas across the east coast of Australia, an important part of the Detection Dogs for Conservation program at the University of the Sunshine Coast. Romane Cristescu, Bear’s trainer, says that before Bear’s rescue in 2016 he was acting out.

2025年2月28日 · Max makes an unlikely conservation worker, and not just because he’s a dog. He’s also bred for hunting. But instead, the English Springer Spaniel is using his supercharged sense of smell to sniff...

2019年11月19日 · Bear, a border collie-koolie cross, is a detection dog who sniffs out live koalas during search and rescue operations in New South Wales’ Northern Rivers region, according to the International...

2021年10月25日 · According to a release from the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW), Bear, the dog who earned admiration during Australia's 2019-2020 wildfire season for his work saving koalas, recently...

2019年11月19日 · Bear, the "koala detection dog," is able to use his nose to sniff out any koalas and help rescue teams find them, according to a press release from the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW).

A month after wildfires devastated a wildlife sanctuary, an expert was brought in to find injured koalas: a koala detection dog named Bear. Detection dogs can locate koalas up to 20 times...

2021年11月1日 · Koalas living in the wild have been affected the most as over 60,000 of them suffered during this tragedy. However, a lot of them were also saved thanks to kind people working as volunteers, firefighters, and one dog in particular. Today we’d like for you to meet Bear, a dog who saved more than 100 koalas during Australia’s Blacksummer ...

2019年11月19日 · Bear is a dog and his job is finding koalas. The border collie/koolie mix with striking blue eyes works with Detection Dogs for Conservation, and has been specially-trained to sniff out...

2025年3月4日 · These dogs, specially trained to sniff out koala scat, have found previously undiscovered koala populations. One dog, Max, revealed a group of koalas that researchers described as fluffier and darker than most — and, vitally, it appears to be chlamydia-free.

Domestic pets can be koalas’ most deadly enemies – but two spaniels trained to track them are amongst their best friends, as Myall Coast environmentalists discovered.