Join us for our first community potluck and presentation of 2026 at the Swan Valley Community Hall in Condon!

Doors Open: 5:30PM
Potluck Begins: 6:00PM
Presentation Begins: 6:30PM

Dogs Make Scents of the World

Humans and canines have a long and rich shared history, and have developed a special inter-species bond. Dogs have helped people in everything from war, to guarding and herding livestock, and more recently, for detecting everything from bombs to drugs to bear poop. Conservation detection is a young and developing discipline where dogs have proven their skills at discriminating among myriad scents to identify one sample among millions. Dogs are helping conservationists collect information on endangered, invasive and illegally trafficked species, among other odors, helping wildlife across the globe.

Megan Parker has helped develop training methods and deployment on a wide range of conservation targets from fish to zoonotic diseases and helped start African anti-poaching canine teams with rescued or re-homed dogs.

Questions? Contact Taylor - taylor@svconnections.org