01 – Bootstrapping Conservation - Surveying Endangered Species With Drones – Tom and Tom, Project Erebus

In the very first episode of the Innovate Eco podcast we are starting with a huge environmental issue, biodiversity loss.  I speak to Tom and Tom two university friends who combined one's knowledge of building drones with the others knowledge of conservation to attempt to survey for a group of species that have suffered severe declines globally, bats. We talk citizen science in an increasingly technology-centric globalised world and how this is hopefully good news for the conservation movement