Musician Paul Simon discusses his new environmental concert tour
On this episode of the Mongabay Newscast, we\u2019re thrilled to feature a conversation with the one and only Paul Simon, who's just announced a\xa0tour in support of the environment. The 12-time Grammy-winning musician recently\xa0announced on Mongabay.com that he is embarking on a 17-date US concert tour, with all proceeds benefitting\xa0Half-Earth, an initiative of the E.O. Wilson Biodiversity Foundation.
We play\xa0parts of the interview with Paul Simon as he discusses his long-time friendship with E.O. Wilson, the power of optimism, and why Dr. Wilson\u2019s Half-Earth idea inspired him to get involved.
Also on the program, we round up the top conservation news and feature another Field Notes segment, this time with Zuzana Burivalova, a conservation scientist at Princeton University who has recorded the soundscapes of over 100 sites in the Indonesian part of Borneo. We listen to a variety of those recordings, each made in a different type of habitat, from protected rainforest to an oil palm plantation, and Burivalova explains what we\u2019re hearing \u2014 and in some cases, what we\u2019re not hearing.
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