Meet The Welsh Puppies Stopping Wildlife Poachers In Africa

Meet The Welsh Puppies Stopping Wildlife Poachers In Africa

Meet The Welsh Puppies Stopping Wildlife Poachers In Africa credit – Dogs4Wildlife In the lush, emerald hills and valleys of Wales, dogs are trained to protect endangered wildlife a whole hemisphere away. Their scent tracking allows them to turn hunters into the hunted, and catch poachers even in total darkness; even hours after they’ve left their kill sites. After a decade of work in Africa, these special dogs have helped rhinos recovery in areas where their numbers were plummeting. As is so often the case with conservation, whether it’s John Muir or Jane Goodall, someone has to be in the right place at the right time with the right solution: and in this story it was professional dog trainers Darren Priddle and Jacqui Law. After seeing photos of poached rhinos in Africa on the internet, the Welsh couple, who’d been training dogs for military work, drug detection, and policing for years, decided they had the drive, the knowledge, and the resources to make a difference. “We can deploy dogs i…