The Audiomoth Project at Castledrum National School
This year, Ours to Protect launched a very special project in collaboration with the Institute of Climate, Sound, and Society in Harvard University. The purpose of this project was to map biodiversity through sound using audio moth recorders, small portable devices that could withstand the elements and record the comings and goings of all the wildlife in a selected area.
This was a world-first project in mapping nature through sound for journalistic purposes. Radio Kerry, along with 15 other independent radio stations, launched a campaign to choose the area for the audio moth to be installed over the summer months.
After an extensive search for a suitable location, Castledrum National School outside Keel was chosen for the project. Siobhan Brosnan returned to the school this month to look at some of the results with the fifth and sixth class students.
