Rat race

July 2017

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July 2017

Fraser McConnell next to one of his sensor-enabled GoodNature traps in Matuku Link. Photo: Meghan Walker
What if conservation was turned into a game? Kill a rat, get a point: that’s the premise of Squawk Squad’s pest control programme.  For Fraser McConnell, getting people to care about conservation involves more than taking pretty pictures of birds and providing grim statistics on declining populations. “The question was, how could we create the […]
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