I was going to write a few lines announcing the Giving Contest and soon enough I had a lot more paragraphs than planned. What is the Giving Contest? It’s a sound effects library giveaway that Thomas Rex Beverly proposed and me and Andy Martin happily joined. Feel free to contribute as much as you can ($1 to $25) and you will be entered a competition to win 3 excellent libraries, one from each of us. All funds raised will be donated to 3 conservation organizations. More details on Tom’s website: Giving Contest

Now that the TL;DR is out of the way, let me go into a little more detail. I’ve been interested in conservation and environmental causes ever since childhood. Once I got seriously into field recording (some 6 years ago) I became more involved, reading many books on conservation, supporting local and global initiatives and even taking part in research/surveys as much as my busy schedule allowed.

It is on my last two field recording trips to Africa (Ethiopia and Gabon - blog post soon) that I realized how much work is done on the ground, and how much of a difference common folks like you and me can make. I was lucky enough to meet people who dedicate their lives to preserving wildlife and nature, and also to teaching others about it. It is very often an uphill battle though.

Ethiopia

Listen to a few of the sounds I recorded in Ethiopia: