Problem
Predators (stoats, possums, rats) are destroying our wildlife in New Zealand and current ways of killing the pests are very manual, toxic and expensive
Hunch
There must be a way to use modern technology to dramatically improve the productivity of conserving nature
Crunch
The Cacophony Project is an open source project that uses best of breed IT solutions to monitor and eliminate predators
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
the story so far
Very early days but looking promising - check out www.cacophony.org.nz for the latest news
Couple of videos about The Cacophony Project
TEDx talk on The Cacophony project (quite out of date now)
TVNZ story on trap development