SoundForest Lab - link
I learned about these massive recordings by Zuzana Burivalova from David George Haskell.
From: here
When one thinks of nature, the vision of forests, mountains, or isolated beaches is inevitably accompanied by the sounds of the environment, frogs ribbiting, squirrels chattering, and seabirds calling. Not only do these sounds bring peace to a busy mind, but they also can say much about what is going on in the surrounding ecosystem.
Zuzana Burivalova is a bioacoustics researcher studying soundscapes to help understand the effects of conservation.
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A part of The Nature Conservancy NatureNet Science Fellows Program, Burivalova continued her post-doctoral research with Princeton University solving one of environmental conservation’s most vexing problems. How does one know it’s working?
The challenge of monitoring a tropical forest for recovery success is that protected and preserved areas are designed to be remote and limited to human access. There’s also the extensive range to cover and the sheer volume of species, from mammals to birds to amphibians.
In 2019, Burivalova and her team strapped small recorders to trees to take in the sounds of the Indonesian forest. The devices are sensitive enough to detect animal songs and vocalizations several hundred meters in all directions.
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