What Does the Amazon Rainforest Have to Say?

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an ccoustic ecologist, founder of Quiet Parks International, an organization that certifies noise-free zones.

Gordon Hempton, an American acoustic ecologist and the founder of Quiet Parks International (QPI), studies the last places on Earth that are free of man-made sound pollution.

The PRZEKRÓJ Foundation invited him to come to Poland at the end of April. Together, we planned to explore whether the Białowieża National Park could become the first certified QPI noise-free zone in Poland. However, Gordon’s visit to Białowieża had to be postponed due to

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Gordon Hempton:

an ccoustic ecologist, founder of Quiet Parks International, an organization that certifies noise-free zones.

Publish date: 21.04.2020

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Maria Hawranek:

an independent reporter, born in 1987. She works alongside Szymon Opryszek, with whom she published the books “Tańczymy już tylko w Zaduszki” [We Only Dance on All Soul’s Day Now] (2016) and “Wyhoduj sobie wolność. Reportaże z Urugwaju” [Grow Yourself Some Freedom: Reportage from Uruguay] (2018). A lover of Latin America and life in the countryside.

Quietness opens up the world that we don’t hear in our everyday lives. That’s what makes it so precious. Maria Hawranek talks to Gordon Hempton, an acoustic ecologist who has circled the globe three times in search of nature’s rarest sounds.

Maria Hawranek: Has any sound especially surprised you?

What Does the Amazon Rainforest Have to Say?

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