Canines for Wildlife are located near Bellingen within the Jaliigirr Biodiversity Alliance region and provide professionally trained and certified conservation scent detection dog teams for threatened species survey, monitoring, research and management; invasive species detection and control; and ecological services by experienced ecologists.
The Canines for Wildlife detection dog team are working line English Springer Spaniels, Cocker Spaniels and a Border Collie. The CFW team work on several threatened species including koala, silver-head and black-tailed dusky antechinus, Hastings River mouse and endangered orchids. They also detect invasive species including orange hawkweed, cane toads and red-eared slider turtle.
Canines for Wildlife have been a partner of and worked with JBA on collaborative projects since 2018.