[FIELD NOTES] Yanbaru Forest

A Habu snake blocks the road to the Yanbaru forest

Summary

Okinawa, 2019: Producer Simone Miller and Dr. Nick Friedman set off into the Yanbaru Forest to visit one of the OIST Ryukyu Soundscapes Project field sites, for FE2.5 - The Nature of Sound.

Despite being briefly blocked by several unscheduled wildlife road crossings, they reach the field recorder and witness the procession of insect and bird calls from day into dusk.

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This episode of Future Ecologies was recorded and produced on the unceded territories of the Musqueam (xwməθkwəy̓əm) Squamish (Skwxwú7mesh), and Tsleil-Waututh (Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh) Nations - otherwise known as Vancouver, British Columbia.