Wildlife Detection Dog Unit (WDDU) handler Kinord and dog Danna take a break from searching the luggage of departing passengers at Kamuzu International Airport (KIA), Lilongwe, Malawi, 2020.
WDDU handler Benjamin and Nikita, walk past container stacks during a training session at Bridge Shipping, Lilongwe, Malawi, 2020.
Wildlife Detection Dog Danna, Malawi, 2020.
Danna, a two-year-old Belgian Malinois, was the last of 5 dogs to join the Wildlife Detection Dog Unit in Malawi.
WDDU head Iain and dog Bubba search behind a bed during a mock raid, Lilongwe, Malawi, 2020.
WDDU Martha, and dog Tim, Kamuzu International Airport (KIA), Lilongwe, Malawi, 2020.
Head of the Wildlife Detection Dog Unit, Ian, holds a handful of bullets, one of the possible samples he plans to use during a training session at the cargo halls at Kamuzu International Airport, Malawi, 2020. In the background handler Martha, and dog Danna wait for their turn to go and search.
WDDU handler Agnes and dog Max, Kamuzu International Airport, Malawi, 2020.
WDDU handler Martha and dog Danna search through the imported cargo hall at Kamuzu International Airport (KIA), Lilongwe, Malawi, 2020.
WDDU handler Kinord watches as Danna indicates that she has found a suspicious scent on a departing passenger’s bag, Kamuzu International Airport, Malawi, 2020.
Wildlife Detection Dog Unit handler Benjamin and dog Nikita walk through a loading hall at Bridge Shipping during a training session, Lilongwe, Malawi, 2020.
WDDU handlers Benjamin (left) and Kinord play with dog Danna while waiting to search departing passengers at Kamuzu International Airport (KIA), Lilongwe, Malawi, 2020.
Wildlife Detection Dog Unit handler Peter and dog Tim, Lilongwe, Malawi, 2020.
WDDU handler Peter and dog Tim search a row of plastic jerrycans on the back of a truck at a police road block, Lilongwe, Malawi, 2020.
WDDU handler Agnes and dog Max search luggage belonging to arriving passengers at Kamuzu International Airport (KIA), Lilongwe, Malawi, 2020.
WDDU handler Agnes and dog Max search a mini bus at a police roadblock, Lilongwe, Malawi, 2020.
Wildlife Detection Dog Tim searches a minibus at a police road block, Lilongwe, Malawi, 2020. The WDDU uses Malawi Police roadblocks to search vehicles for illegal wildlife products being smuggled in and out of Lilongwe, Malawi’s capital.
WDDU handler Peter and dog Tim search a truck loaded with elephant grass at a police road block, Lilongwe, Malawi, 2020.
WDDU handler Benjamin and dog Nikita search a container during a training session at Bridge Shipping, Lilongwe, Malawi, 2020.
Wildlife Detection Dog Unit handler Benjamin with dog Nikita, Bridge Shipping, Lilongwe, Malawi, 2020.
Wildlife Detection Dog Unit handler Hardwell, Kamuzu International Airport (KIA), Lilongwe, Malawi, 2020.
WDDU handlers Benjamin and Kinord, and dog Max walk through the imported cargo hall at Kamuzu International Airport (KIA), Lilongwe, Malawi, 2020.
WDDU handler Earnest and dog Danna, Kamuzu International Airport (KIA), Malawi, 2020.
Wildlife Detection Dog Unit handler Boniface collects pieces of hippo tooth after completing a search of a house during a mock raid, Lilongwe, Malawi, 2020.
WDDU handler Benjamin and dog Nikita search cargo during a training session at Bridge Shipping, Lilongwe, Malawi, 2020.
WDDU head Ian and handler Hardwell, outside the offices of the Lilongwe Society for the Protection of Animals clinic in Lilongwe, Malawi, 2020.
WDDU handler Hardwell takes a break from grooming Max in a holding pen at the WDDU kennels Lilongwe, Malawi, 2020.
During a training session, WDDU head, Ian, gets dog Bubba, to identify Mulanje Cedar, Wildlife Detection Dog Unit kennels, Lumbadzi Police Station, Lilongwe, Malawi, 2020.
In the background, WDDU handler Ernest walks past the unit’s scent wall, which the handlers also use to train their dogs on new and existing scents.
Back at base, Wildlife Detection Dog Unit handler Agnes waits for dog Max to exit the unit’s transport vehicle after their shift is over, Lilongwe, Malawi, 2020.