Mongabay India’s 2024 podcast miniseries “Wild Frequencies” bagged the “Best Science and Medical” category at the Publisher Podcast Awards ceremony in London on June 11. The podcast is a three-episode series that tells stories of how researchers in India use the science of bioacoustics, or animal sounds, to better understand the lives of wildlife, such as elephants, crickets, bats, dolphins, porpoises, sarus cranes and wolves.
Also shortlisted for the category was an episode from Mongabay Explores, a podcast hosted by Mongabay’s Mike DiGirolamo.
Wild Frequencies, reported and co-hosted by Mongabay India’s Kartik Chandramouli and Mongabay’s Shreya Dasgupta, with sound design and original music by Abhijit Shylanath, was additionally shortlisted in the award’s “Best Limited Series” category. BBC Sounds won this category for its “World of Secrets S1: The Abercrombie Guys.”
The three-episode Wild Frequencies series, which features the work of Indian researchers using bioacoustics to study wildlife in cities, forests, grasslands, tea plantations and the ocean, recently won the “Best Produced Show” award in the science category of the India Audio Summit & Awards, which showcases radio and audio content from India.
The win comes as Mongabay expands its podcast portfolio to four languages, with the recent addition of the French-language podcast, Planète Mongabay.
Find the Wild Frequencies episodes here:
Episode 1: “Find Them” — explains how the science of bioacoustics is useful to identify species like birds and bats and count others like dolphins, porpoises and wolves.
Episode 2: “Know Them” — explores how elephant and cricket calls give us a peek into how they communicate with each other to not just share information, but also work together and even find mates.
Episode 3: “Us and Them” — talks about how listening to changes in animal sounds can be an indicator of wildlife shifting their behaviors in the face of altered landscapes or habitats due to human activities.
Follow Mongabay India’s Everything Environment on Apple and Spotify. You can also listen to all episodes here on the Mongabay India website.
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