The article discusses the growing trend of passive acoustic monitoring, where scientists use audio recorders in natural settings to capture and analyze sounds from various habitats and species. This method has gained popularity due to cheaper recording equipment and advancements in data processing, aided by artificial intelligence. However, there is a stark contrast between this burgeoning interest in the natural soundscape and human-induced noise pollution, which drowns out the sounds of the environment, highlighting a critical need to re-engage with the more-than-human world in harmony rather than dominance.
We are living through a quiet revolution—a renaissance of listening to the more-than-human world. Scientists around the globe are increasingly setting up audio recorders in wild places.
But at the same time, a counter-revolution is also underway. Humans have become very loud. After millennia of careful attunement to the life around us, many of us now live hearing almost nothing but our own species.
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