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Sensors atop trees protect vital forests

TO­PHER White climbs to the roof of the rain­for­est to run checks on one of 27 ‘Guardian’ sen­sors he built to trans­mit sound from the sur­round­ing for­est.

CLIPPED on to a rope, climbing high up in a tree swaying in gusts of wind, Topher White finally reaches the roof of the rainforest, and opens a laptop to run checks on a machine he built to tr...