“Songs of Disappearance” is currently in third place in the ranking of the 50 most popular albums in the Oceanian country, according to the Australian Recording Industry Association.
It comes behind Adele’s best-selling “30” and Ed Sheeran’s “=”. Even more impressive, “Songs of Disappearance” currently reigns supreme in the top 20 most listened to Australian albums for the week of December 20.
It is likely that the BirdLife association did not expect such success when it released “Songs of Disappearance” on Dec 3.
It had nevertheless launched a social media campaign to encourage music lovers to listen en masse to this record, which highlights the sounds of 53 Australian birds in danger of extinction.
“This album is a very special record with some rare recordings of birds that may not survive if we don’t come together to protect them,” Paul Sullivan, CEO of BirdLife Australia, told The Music Network.
Some 180 birds affected by the wildfires
Biodiversity has been heavily impacted by the unprecedented wildfires that have ravaged Australia in 2019 and 2020.
Events that the World Wildlife Fund described in a report as “one of the worst wildlife disasters in modern history.”
Bird species such as the swift parrot and the Far Eastern curlew are particularly at risk due to the destruction of their natural habitat.
And they aren’t the only ones whose fate is more than uncertain following these events.
The World Wildlife Fund estimated in July 2020 that 2.46 billion reptiles, 180 million birds, 143 million mammals and 51 million amphibians have been affected by this environmental crisis.
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