In a small workshop in Taranaki, a father of three has bet his house on developing a new pest trap that will help bring birdsong back to the bush and manufacturing back to his town.
Industrial designer Nick Jones and his company Rewild have developed a pest trap dubbed the “F-Bomb” that could replace tens of thousands of wooden box traps currently deployed to control mustelids, rats and hedgehogs.
Jones’ plastic box contraption is smaller, lighter, safer and simpler to use than existing traps and the Inglewood entrepreneur is betting everything it is a product that can help take the country towards its predator-free goals.
“Put it this way. I don’t have a house any more,” he says in his Inglewood workshop where the plastic moulded traps are assembled.
See full article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/environment/130872692/the-pest-trap-and-the-designer-betting-his-house-on-a-better-way-of-protecting-nz-from-predators
