Official Stoat Trial by Feral Control

 This week marks a significant step in the evoultion of the sound lure project, specifically our focus on stoats.   We have an external company, Feral Control, who are South Taranaki based who are running an official trial for us, focussing on stoats.    They have deployed four DOC 200/250 with our fully updated sound lure units, which are being placed in the field.

These units are being run and assessed independently of our project, where we will be concentrating on the results and comparing the results to the rest of the traps in the location.

We also have an additional trial being run for us by the Department of Conservation (DOC) as part of the trapping network on the local Mounga.

It has taken over two years for the project to reach this point where we are confident of the set up for the electronics, the weather proofing and the reliability of the units that we are producing, which we are looking now to deploy in a number of areas.   We will be updating the posts and information as the results come hand on this blog.

You can follow the trial by using trap.nz website and searching for "sound lure trial" and locating the South Taranaki trial.