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Help Wanted: Australian Conservation Group Seeks New Koala Rescue Dog
The team wants a rescue dog under 2 years old with zero prey drive to continue Bear’s koala-detection work.
- The International Fund for Animal Welfare Oceania is searching for a new rescue dog to succeed Eleven-year-old Bear, the retired Koalas-detection dog who hung up his iconic boots earlier this year.
- After a decade of rescue work, Bear retired in March, having helped locate more than 100 Koalas during Australia's Black Summer bushfires, leaving conservationists scrambling to fill the gap.
- Trainers seek a medium-sized rescue dog under two years old with high energy and zero prey drive, requiring 100% play drive to locate live Koalas in dense bush.
- Frédéric Chappée, IFAW's director of canine units with more than 20 years experience, will oversee training using a 'doggy distance learning program' he developed from his home in France.
- Amid increasingly frequent climate disasters, dogs play a vital role in wildlife rescue; "They can smell what we can't see," Sharrad said, emphasizing canine spotters' necessity.
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Australia is looking for a successor to Bear, who, in ten years of good and loyal service, has saved the lives of a hundred marsupials trapped in bush fires.
·Paris, France
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"Bear" is allowed to retire. "It really leaves very large paw prints, part of the organization International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW).
·Vienna, Austria
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