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Chris Watson on location in Costa Rica, during a shoot for the BBC documentary The Green Planet
Chris Watson on location in Costa Rica, during a shoot for the BBC documentary The Green Planet (Photo: Courtesy Chris Watson)
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How the Pandemic Is Teaching Us to Listen to Nature

Chris Watson on location in Costa Rica, during a shoot for the BBC documentary The Green Planet

One of the defining aspects of modern life is our inability to hear the sounds of nature due to noise pollution. But since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, people across the world have remarked that they鈥檙e hearing birds and other creatures more clearly than ever before. This includes professional listeners like , the legendary field recordist who for decades has captured the sounds of wildlife heard in David Attenborough鈥檚 films, including The Green Planet, which will premier in 2022. As Watson points out, the moment noise pollution stops, the problem goes away. But this period of relative global silence we鈥檙e experiencing right now is temporary, and something we should all take advantage of. 鈥淢ost of our time, in much of our lives, we spend time blocking out sound simply to get through the day,鈥� he says. But if we open our ears, 鈥淲e can easily train ourselves to be good listeners.鈥�


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