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Problem
Predators (stoats, possums, rats) are destroying our wild life and current ways of killing the pests are very manual, toxic and expensive
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Hunch
There must be a way to use modern technology to dramatically improve the productivity of conserving nature
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Crunch
The Cacophony Project is an open source project that uses solar powered smart phones as an IT network in the bush to monitor and potentially help kill predators
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Munch
Aim is to make this a best practice open source project so all NZers passionate about conservation and restoration can contribute and together we can restore the bird song Cacophony
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the story so far
Very early days but looking promising - check out www.cacophony.org.nz for the latest news.