Conservation Sound

Cheryl Tipp is Curator of Wildlife and Environmental Sounds at the British Library. She talks about the conservation applications of sound, and the availability of sounds in the archive.

This is Episode C of Conservation Sound.

The natural history sounds are from the British Wildlife Recordings playlist, used under Creative Commons with attribution:

soundcloud.com/the-british-library/sets/british-wildlife-recordings

A recent blogpost by Cheryl about the audio being made available as Creative Commons. http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/sound-and-vision/2015/04/british-wildlife-recordings-on-the-move.html

Sarah Blunt doesn’t make radio with the purpose of conservation. She is, however, a scientist who tramps about the countryside in wellies, and reaches millions of people with messages that treasure Britain’s natural history, entirely though sound.

Some of Sarah's output on BBC Radio 4: http://www.bbc.co.uk/search?q=%22Sarah+Blunt%22&filter=programmes

This is Episode B of Conservation Sound.

Episode B of Conservation Sound is all about Sarah Blunt, Senior Producer at the BBC’s Natural History Unit in Bristol. She talks about the importance of knowing your audience, and the very wide range of programme-types available to her as part of the BBC Radio 4 output. She also tells us about her scientific background, and offers her contribution to our conservation sound manifesto.

Antoine Bertin decided to explore England’s forests through sound, in collaboration with a fox. Why? And How?

This is Conservation Sound, Episode A.

Hear the result in full on his website, anotinebertin.org.