Dogs from around the world are being sent to help in the search and recovery effort in earthquake-ravaged Haiti. The U.S. government is sending two, 72-man search and rescue teams with dogs to help dig out survivors. Elsewhere, dogs were departing from Peru, Taiwan, Mexico and Britain, where a 64-member team, including dogs and handlers was en route.

The National Disaster Search Dog Foundation has sent at least six dog-and-handler teams have been sent to Haiti.

The teams were deployed as part of Los Angeles County’s California Task Force 2 (CA-TF2) to find victims of the earthquake buried under rubble. Each Task Force brings over 50,000 pounds of equipment, including vehicles, heavy machinery and supplies in addition to their most valuable tool: live-scent Search Dogs. The dogs are able to climb and run across rubble, like the piles of concrete in the streets of Port-Au-Prince, and determine within minutes if there are survivors buried below.

You can learn more about the teams at http://www.searchdogfoundation.org. Follow them on Twitter, Facebook and YouTube.

You can donate to the National Disaster Search Dog Foundation