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What Does A Healthy Rainforest Sound Like? (encore) : Short Wave On a rapidly changing planet, there are many ways to measure the health of an ecosystem. Can sound be one of them?

Researcher Sarab Sethi explains how machine learning and soundscape recordings could be used to predict ecosystem health around the world.

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What Does A Healthy Rainforest Sound Like? (encore)

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What Does A Healthy Rainforest Sound Like? (encore)

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Audio recorders in treetops are powered with solar panels. One aspect of the SAFE Acoustics Project is to monitor ecosystem health through sound.

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On a rapidly changing planet, there are many ways to measure the health of an ecosystem. Can sound be one of them?

Researcher Sarab Sethi explains how machine learning and soundscape recordings could be used to predict ecosystem health around the world.

You can listen to audio from the SAFE Acoustics Project in the rainforest in Borneo at acoustics.safeproject.net.

This episode was produced by Abby Wendle, edited by Viet Le and fact-checked by Emily Kwong.