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Listen to Different Woodlands From Around the World With This Forest Sound Map
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Listen to Different Woodlands From Around the World With This Forest Sound Map

Wild Rumpus, organizer of the Timber Festivel, has created Sounds of the Forest audio project that lets you hear global woodland sounds.

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When an annual music and arts festival held in the middle of an English national forest had to be canceled because of COVID-19, the organizers saw an opportunity to connect people, art, and nature all over the world, rather than only in Britain.

With normal levels of noise pollution disappearing in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, organizers saw an opportunity to connect people with nature through sound, and created a free audio-library called ‘Sounds of the Forest’ while inviting anyone who was interested in collaborating to come help expand it.

Featuring a map of the world, forest-goers can record the sounds of their local woodland and upload it via Soundcloud to appear as a dot on the map where anyone can click and listen to it. Some contributors are knowledgeable enough to add in field notes to help listeners understand what they are hearing.

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For instance, in Tamin Negara National Park, Malaysia, one recordist notes the sounds of magpies and robins in the late-morning hours. A biologist in Madagascar shared the ghostly hollar of the Indri, the largest of the lemur species. A May evening battle between two nightingale songs was captured in Slovakia by yet another contributor.

For the entire map, head over to Timber Festival’s website and click Sounds of the Forest where you can listen and upload.

Since social distancing meant in some cases governments cutting off access to nature, and in other cases making nature the only viable place to go in order to get out of the house, it was the most logical way to bring the spirit of the Timber Festival into people’s lives.

“With the usual level of noise pollution disappearing, we could hear the birds singing and the wind in the trees,” recounted the appropriately named Sarah Bird, director of the festival’s organizing partner Wild Rumps, in an email with Tree Hugger.