Very interesting project profiled on this week's episode of the Mongabay podcast, from minute 24 on we speak to the President of the Australasian Ecoacoustics Congress about her field recordings of pobblebonk (aka banjo) frogs, plumed whistling ducks, bitterns, and more, who've flocked in to rewetted marshes, and whose presence helps her measure success of the intervention: without acoustic techniques, she could never document this, since the rarest ones are only present or active late at night:
https://news.mongabay.com/2017/08/audio-a-rare-earth-mine-in-madagascar-triggers-concerns-for-locals-and-lemurs/ Jo Wood is an Environmental Water Project Officer with the Goulburn Broken Catchment Authority in Victoria, Australia. This Field Notes segment is particularly interesting because we’ve spoken with a number of researchers on this podcast who use bioacoustics to study changes to the environment in order to inform conservation measures, but Wood is the first researcher we’ve spoken with who uses bioacoustics specifically to monitor the effectiveness of a particular conservation intervention that’s already been deployed. Wood plays for us the calls of a number of indicator species whose presence, or lack thereof, helps signal the overall health of the wetlands ecosystems where she works. You can subscribe to our podcast on Android <https://subscribeonandroid.com/mongabay.libsyn.com/rss%E2%80%9D>, Google Play <https://play.google.com/music/listen#/ps/Ii23ecdja5vf2we3ahata3x7ui>, iTunes <https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/mongabay-newscast-1-panamas/id1155856616?i=1000375414517&mt=2> , Stitcher <http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/mongabay-newscast>, TuneIn <http://tunein.com/radio/Mongabay-Newscast-p914475/>, or RSS <http://mongabay.libsyn.com/rss>. Erik -- See my latest writing and photojournalism projects here <http://www.erikhoffner.com/> *tw: @erikhoffner <https://twitter.com/ErikHoffner>*
