Meet India's Four-Legged Wildlife Detectives

Since 2008, WWF-India has trained more than 120 wildlife sniffer dog squads deployed across 22 states, helping seize tiger skins, pangolin scales, ivory and live animals while solving poaching cases that human investigators cannot crack, including a recent case where a Belgian Malinois tracked poisoners of 14 wild deer.

The article focuses on the program's successes; enforcement and anti-poaching outcomes in individual regions may still face capacity or political constraints.