Ajax the Kea Dog

Second Edition – updated 2022

Ajax was a working dog trained to sniff out the nests of endangered kea in remote parts of the South Island. His trainer, Corey Mosen, then placed cameras in and around the nests to monitor the kea and any predators that might attack them.
Together, Corey and Ajax traversed the steep high country throughout the South Island searching out kea nests. Their part in the kea conservation effort was essential and both Ajax and Corey can rightly be called conservation heroes.
This heart-warming story describes how Ajax was trained to be one of the very few kea detection dogs in the world and tells of his various escapades in the unpredictable wilds of the back country, including flying in helicopters, working in blizzards, escaping from angry wasps and sleeping out in the bitter cold.