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Day 1

9:30 - Conference Welcome ~ Louise Wilson & Dr Kayleigh Fawcett Williams

10:00 - Understanding and meeting the welfare needs of wildlife detection dogs ~ Sam Gaines RSPCA (England & Wales)

10:30 - The reality of being a conservation detection dog handler ~ Rachael Flavell Paws For Conservation

10:45 - Great crested newt (Triturus cristatus) detection dogs ~ Nikki Glover Amphibian and Reptile Detection Dogs

11:00 - How many hogs can a hog dog find if a hog dog could find hogs? ~ Lucy Bearman-Brown Hedgehog Research

11:30 - The Foundations of Interactive Toy Play ~ Craig Ogilvie 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 Got scat?

16:00 - Sniffing out Bumblebee Nests: Learnings from the Field ~ Laura Holder Conservation Dogs Collective, Inc.

16:30 - Evaluating Canine Detection of Invasive Mussel Veligers ~ Nathaniel Hall Canine Olfaction Lab

17:30 - Keep it simple ~ Heath Smith Rogue Detection Teams

18:30 - Questions, Discussion & Session Close ~ Louise Wilson & Dr Kayleigh Fawcett Williams

20:30 - Panel sessions

22:00 - End of day 1

DAY 2:

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 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 CapeNature

11:00 - Detection dogs in conservation projects – a review ~ Annegret Grimm-Seyfarth Monitoring Dogs

11:30 - The use of conservation detection dogs in consultancy ~ Luke Gorman Atkins

11:45 - Harness your Hunter through Predation Substitute Training ~ Simone Mueller 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 South Atlantic Biosecurity Detector Dogs

15:30 - From Imprinting to Field Deployed - Lessons Learnt from Training to Surveys ~ Paul Bunker Chiron K9 LLC

16:00 - The process of managing a conservation detection dog study – stories from the field, the office and everything in between ~ Denise Karp @Artenspürhunde

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