Project Update: July 2020

Thank you again to Venture Taranaki for the funding support

While we have not made any releases since the announcement of the Curious Minds Funding for the Project in 2020 we now are approaching an exciting stage in the project.

We've continued to expand the placement of units throughout the country for the pest project and have units in several locations in the South Island, including now the Mackenzie Country and soon to the West Coast of the South Island.

We also have just had (pictured) the resources arrived for the Curious Minds Possum Trapping Project.   This will allow the students from Auroa Primary School to produce the Possum Units which are part of our 2020 Curious Minds Application/Project.   We will be pushing out approximately fifty units to the wider community for recording of data and information gathering. 

Very soon we will start our farm deployment locally with our first test site.

We also are running units locally, including the original unit which was first put outside in November, it is approaching a years external (outside) service with no indication of any technical difficulties as a result of the weather.

Finally we are continuing with our New Plymouth Aiport deployment.   We have now had three units been deployed successfully for a month.   While these were responsible for catching a stoat within 48 hours of deployment and numerous mice since then we are going to look at refining the trap set up and baiting of the stations.

We will continue to post updats to this blog as they occur and expect there to be significant developments in this area shortly.