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How detection dogs are improving Australian conservation research

After the devastating 2019 Australian bushfires, animal rescuers knew they had limited time to find and treat burned and injured koalas.

Koalas are notoriously difficult for humans to spot in the wild, meaning that rescuers feared many of the endangered animals would be lost in the aftermath of the blaze.

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