The forest sound detectives
People Fixing the World
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Bistix - A New Way to Get Information About Wild Life
There were just too many different creatures in the forest to check up on, especially over such vast areas. Previous attempts with experts on the ground trying to catalogue species were costly and incomplete. Bistix is this new, exciting way to get information about wild life by using the sounds that the animals make. To set up one of our recorders, we would set out from the village pretty early in the morning. So you have to go enough weave your way through the jungle, crossing branches and fallen trees over the course of a couple of weeks.
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