Saving the Rainforest with Old Cell Phones

               Rainforests have some of the most complicated soundscapes on the planet. In this dense noise of insects, primates, birds, and everything else that moves in the forest. The old cell phone you have hanging around and collecting dust may have the answer.

                 After a visit to the rainforests of Borneo, physicist and engineer Topher White was struck by the sounds of the forest. In particular, the noises he couldn’t hear.While on a walk, White and others came across an illegal logger sawing down a tree just a few hundred meters away from a ranger station.This incident set White thinking that perhaps the best way to save the Earth’s precious rainforest is to listen to its loggers and poachers. And the innovation he came up with uses old cell phones to do this!

               To introduce us to the innovation he came up with, here is Topher White on the National Geographic Live stage. National Geographic is promoting some incredible things, so go check them out to see what they’ve been up to lately!. We all have a cell phone graveyard filled with the ghosts of technologies past.We need to feel empowered and the more we understand how our small actions can have an enormous impact, the more we engage others to do the same.