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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Environment
Rebecca Speare-Cole

SHOCKING: Sniffer dog trained to detect tree disease in groundbreaking project - What They Never Told You

Ivor the sniffer dog is trained at Bents Garden Centre (Forest Research and Canine Assisted Pest Eradication) -

A sniffer dog has been successfully trained to detect a tree disease as part of a “groundbreaking” project to protect the UK’s woodlands.

Experts taught Ivor, a six-year-old cocker spaniel Labrador cross, to identify the highly destructive pathogen phytophthora ramorum.

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