Description: An immersive audio experience of the planet's protected places. Allowing everyone to benefit from listening natural and cultural sounds.
The Sounds of Your Park initiative is a continuously growing collection of sounds intended to celebrate the acoustical beauty and diversity of the world’s national parks and other protected areas. Natural spaces, species, and traditional cultural practices are disappearing around the globe as the modern human footprint expands. Coupled with this loss is the associated loss of natural and cultural soundscapes. Stated plainly, some of the planet’s most iconic sounds are disappearing and are now largely confi
National parks and other protected areas are critical for maintaining human and global well-being. Natural sounds in particular are shown to benefit human health and can indicate the health of ecosystems. Having access to these places and their sounds, either directly or through remote listening opportunities like Sounds of Your Park, helps restore human well-being and ecosystem health and in turn, raises awareness of these critically important places.
This project is a #NatureForAll collaboration between the following. The #NatureForAll movement helps bring organizations together to inspire love of nature, with the understanding that the more people experience nature, the more they will strive to conserve it.