Scott Ward can still recall the relief he saw on parents' faces when a search and rescue dog he was working with found their children safe in Canada's vast and heavily wooded Banff National Park. Another time, his canine partner led him hiking up a steep mountainside for two hours until they reached a man with a broken leg who was close to dying from hypothermia. Now 73 and retired, Ward spent 17 years as a dog handler in the wilderness of the Canadian Rocky Mountains, work he described as gratifying. Over the years, the rescue programme was cut back to just one person in the role, and Ward was shocked when he heard recently that Parks Canada will end the programme entirely as of this month.
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