Nose No Limit

08/04/2025

Thank you Lili Chin for sending us a signed copy of your wonderful new book and for highlighting Willow's turtle work in the section on conservation dogs 🐾 🐢🤗
If you would like your own copy it will soon be on sale in the US and UK.

19/01/2025

I'm a bit behind on updating this page. Here is another article from last November that features a past project that Willow did sniffing out an endangered plant.

To be a successful conservationist, you must be focused, enthusiastic, athletic, enjoy the outdoors and have a great sense of smell. Willow Lock, who specializes in detecting threatened plant species in Indiana, fits the profile. She’s also a labrador retriever. Her human, Josephine Lock, is the f...

19/01/2025

Happy to feature in this wonderful article. The author, Tim Mihocik, worked really hard to ensure it did justice to the myriad of amazing work that conservation dogs and their people do to support conservation work across the US. 🐾🐢🐝🦅🦇
Read the article here - https://www.nwf.org/Magazines/National-Wildlife/2025/Winter/Conservation/Conservation-Dogs

Picture of Holly showing of the booties that protect her feet in these frigid temperatures.

22/02/2024

If you live in Indiana, please help to stop any more of these damaging invasive species being introduced to our environment by signing this petition:

Stop the Sale of Callery Pear in Indiana!

04/10/2023

Returnable glass soda bottles were the norm when I was a kid.
The current economic system focused solely on growth and profit will never provide the custodianship that the Earth needs, as this film clearly shows.

Sign the petition and tell Coke to Bring Back Refill: https://action.storyofstuff.org/sign/tell-coca-cola-bring-back-refill/Once upon a time, Coke’s bottles ...

26/08/2023

Celebrated National Dog Day by sharing the work of Conservation Dogs Collective at the McCloud Nature center pollinator event.

04/04/2023

Willow's Ornate Box turtle work with Conservation Dogs Collective will be featured in the May edition of Polk County Conservation's Nature News magazine. In the meantime, here is a taster in this press release.

As a part of the Ornate Box Turtle restoration effort, Polk County Conservation enlisted the help of conservation dogs. The world of working dogs is vast - from search and rescue, airport dogs, police canines, and even dogs who can sniff out diseases. The newest addition to the working canine scene....

27/02/2023

The patterns on flowers act like mini landing guidance systems for bumblebees🥰

The search for nectar costs insects a lot of energy, so they have to be as efficient as possible. Colorful patterns on the petals can help with that.