The Rain Forest Nature Trail in the Quinault Rain Forest offers a peaceful walk through one of the most lush ecosystems in Olympic National Park. Towering moss covered trees, thick ferns, and the ...

I’m back home in the North of England, and this week I went for a solo wild camp in a peaceful, rainy forest. The ground was covered in autumn leaves, the trees glowed in warm tones, and a quiet river ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...