“Let Nature Sing” by RSPB
“Let Nature Sing” is a song released by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB), a charity organization based in the United Kingdom. RSPB’s singular mission is, as its moniker suggests, to preserve wildlife (particularly of the avian variety) from “a rapidly-changing world”. Indeed according to their statistics, the UK’s bird population has dropped by 40 million creatures in the last half of the century, which is a genuine cause for alarm. And the alarm they are sounding at the moment is the release of the song “Let Nature Sing”.
Accordingly, this song is an instrumental comprised of the songs of about 25 different birds, many of them belonging to endangered species. RSPB’s goal in doing so, as alluded to earlier, is to raise awareness of their plight in lieu of pollution, climate change and other factors which threaten their existence. And thus far, “Let Nature Sing” is achieving this goal.
Facts about “Let Nature Sing”
- RSPB Director of Conservation, Martin Harper, has stated that in addition to losing 40 million birds since 1966, the United Kingdom is “one of the world’s most nature-deprived countries”.
- Adrian Thomas, RSPB’s Project Manager, is the individual responsible for recording the bird songs used on this track.
- Some of the bird species featured on this song are blackbirds, robins, nightingales, warblers and woodpeckers.
- Adrian Thomas is credited with writing “Let Nature Sing” along with folk singer Sam Lee and musical director/composer Bill Barclay. The three of them also produced the track.
- This is the first song by birds to make it onto the UK Singles Chart. As of 5 May 2019, it climbed to an impressive number 11.
- The RSPB released “Let Nature Sing” on 26 April 2019.
