More than a million hours of sound recordings are available from the Elephant Listening Project (ELP) in the K. Lisa Yang Center for Conservation Bioacoustics at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology—a ...

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The hours of recordings, now available to the public, can be used to monitor species and detect elephant poachers. Fifty microphones captured a cacophony of sounds from Congo’s Nouabalé-Ndoki National ...

Watching the first few minutes of “The Territory,” a new documentary set in the Amazon rainforest, is like listening to a symphony of deforestation. The film opens with the sound of an engine revving, ...

It’s late at night and I’m lying absolutely still. The hot air is so humid that sweat stings my eyes. All is dark. Cocooned behind insect netting in a cabin, I’m immersed in the forest’s sounds. The ...

The Elephant Listening Project records sounds across the forests of the Congo, and has begun making these recordings public. Where on Earth is more wondrous and invigorating than the rainforest? Many ...

On discs: Library of Natural Socuds, Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology, in association with Conservation International. On cover of accompanying pamphlet: Sounds of rainforest mammals : an audio field ...