September 06, 2022
UfU dog project on television: Nano magazine shows an article about IGAMonDog!
Since April 2021, UfU has been running its popular IGAMonDog project, which deals with invasive plant species and dogs’ noses. More precisely: dogs are supposed to detect invasive species and thus provide scientists with important data on the spread of the plants. To this end, the first dog teams were trained in the pilot project to find invasive plant species in the wild. Invasive and alien species (IAS) are increasingly spreading and not only threaten other species or their habitats, but also have an impact on the economy and the health of the population. As young plants in particular can easily be overlooked by humans, sniffer dogs could help to find them in the future. Especially in sensitive areas, such as nature reserves, this approach has great potential to prevent the spread. The television team from Nano Magazin on 3Sat accompanied our work with the dogs and filmed an exciting report about the project: