Bernie Krause, right, who has been recording nature in Sugarloaf Ridge state park, California, for 30 years, with fellow sound ecologist Jack Hines.

Sounds of the natural world are rapidly falling silent and will become “acoustic fossils” without urgent action to halt environmental destruction, international experts have warned.

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