[Animal] Germany.. Impact dogs monitor protected animals at project implementation sites

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Impact dogs in Germany, through their sense of smell, contribute to the detection of types of protected animals in sites where the transport company "Deutsche Bahn" will start implementing its projects.https://arabic.euronews.com/2021/12/28/germany-the-sniffer-dogs-monitor-protected-animals-at-project-implementation-sites

Six impact dogs have joined Deutsche Bahn, which relies on this type of animal to speed up the start-up of its projects. The dogs "can guide us directly to where the animals live", says Jens Bergmann, the company's director of infrastructure planning, so the process is less affected by the weather and seasons.The strength of the sense of smell was the main criterion that prompted the national company to choose the six dogs, "Vinya", "Fina", "Storm", "Esquill", "Monte" and "Wisper", to monitor protected snakes, frogs, bats and lizards, with the aim of facilitating protection procedures And speed up the construction process.The search process, which is usually completed by specialists, may take one year, while this period is reduced to less than two months when the dogs take over, as they are also less aggressive towards nature. Dog trainer Kathleen Spittel-Schnell stresses that this process avoids "the nasty surprise of finding the animals when the machines are on the job site, which can cause additional project delays, or stop construction completely."