Curious Minds Projects 2020 - Taranaki Funding

We are very proud to annouce that we have been granted significant funding from Venture Taranaki to spend a year researching sound lures specific to possums in our local environment.

This is a huge boost for our sound lure project moving forward which will allow us to operate at a regional level with a significant project over the next twelve months.   It will mean that we will be able to link and network with a variety of organisations and individuals regionally and also potentially bring a huge audience to this project and work. 

We are extremely greatful for this support and funding as it will allow this project to continue to expand and progress regionally.  There will be further announcements about this moving forward.

In addition to our Curious Minds Project we are continuing to develop our use of sound lures to target additional creatures - mustlelids and rats are a focus for our deployment at New Plymouth Airport.

This development has four of our units deployed at the airport which took place in late June 2020.   In the first week of deployment, within the first forty-eight hours there were two activations including the capture of a stoat. 

This is hugely significant as this is the first Stoat captured at the airport despite extensive and detailed trapping over a considerable time.    The second checking of the traps two days later revealed that there were three mice in the traps.

We are continuing to explore interest from other groups and organisations who would like to trail the technology throughout the region and nationally.   If you would be intereested in doing so and have not yet made contact with us you can do so by emailing the project at myles.webb@gmail.com.