Acoustic Acoustic Acology - What Is It?

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I get up early because i am so often connecting with people in the us. I think of that is one of the great new streams of gan when we first started getting satellite images of earth slady transformation. The point is like a rocket with an instematic strap to the front of it, things move fast. If you're like, was that in 19 92 or 18 74? I got you. So the first images humans took from space were by the us. In the mid 19 forties, right after the second world war. And now you've been working with the nitre conservancy. Ray, how long have you been with them? O, godness, 14

Insects humming. Birds squawking. Chainsaws buzzing? What does the rainforest sound like? Or the oceans outside of port cities? Is the world getting louder? And what can recording devices detect that our ears – especially mine, Alie’s – can’t? Acoustic Ecologist Dr. Eddie Game of the Nature Conservancy has asked conservation questions over decades of work in 20 countries, and even though his microphone for this interview sucked, his stories and wisdom are a pleasure to hear. Also: is it okay to talk to owls? How much of timber harvesting is legal? And how do communities come together to protect the lands around them? Also: the most elusive and coolest midnight parrot.

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Transcripts by Emily White of The Wordary

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