Taking Microphones Out in the Rain Forest

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The first time we did it, hapes of the microphones had failed and had a kind of water in them. And because it's the rain forest, these trees were growing so fast that they had grown,. over those three months enough to bend the metal back plate ever so slightly and uncrack the seal open. So really e in quite a meaning for why, that's one of the kind of shocking and most consistent things we see in our samplings. We comb the dawn chorus, you art to have the dust corus at the end of the day. There they really are, massive peaks of acoustic energy because you got lots of species localizing around that time. Go christiani,

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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