This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences.
Dogs have amazing olfactory abilities which we are just learning to understand. Conservation detection dogs find rare samples which are nearly impossible to collect otherwise. Working Dogs for Conservation trains dogs to find weeds in Montana, moon bears in China, cheetahs in Zambia or the Cross River gorilla in Cameroon, where dogs have proven incredible ambassadors and helped conservation efforts.