Conservation biologist Noreen Mutoro talks with us about her experience working with Action for Cheetahs in Kenya, who have been pioneering the work with dogs in conversation. (Follow them on LinkedIn or Facebook to learn about sharing space with wild living animals or how Apollo, the newest canine on the team, is doing.) Check out Ldia: A Dog’s Life in Samburu, which is the book for young people Noreen has co-authored.
We also talk about One Health considerations, working with local communities, the many ways of life for dogs, problems of fortress conservation, and the nature of indigenous knowledge as well as its potential in promoting coexistence between humans and other animals.
Substack had let us down with their app, so this is a Zoom recording — I hope you can still hear okay!
Meeting Noreen has been really inspiring and helped me return to an old hobby, scent detection with dogs. She has also pointed me into the direction of Naturschutzhunde, an Austrian organisation doing important work on protocols and training dogs for these jobs. I am 100% hooked and planning more posts on this ancient mutualism between humans and dogs in service of other animals.
Thanks for listening!
