Christian Höök and Mathias Kristoferqvist, both foresters and doctoral students at SLU, are the founders of the start-up company EcoVibes.

With new technology, the founders of EcoVibes want to make it easier to measure biodiversity. The solution makes it easier to find and protect rare species, and to choose the right areas for forestry and construction projects early on in the process. Inventorying with sound sensors, or "bugging the forest," is effective, safe, and causes no disturbance to the environment being inventoried. Read more