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On Thursday, 1 June 2017 South African National Parks (SANParks) launched podcasts on www.sanparks.org

SANParks Podcasts focus on a range of sound recordings such as specific wildlife information (e.g. birding, trees, mammals, reptiles, etc.) as described by various internal and external experts; discussion panels introducing and debating various SANParks related issues; ranger stories; park descriptions; and podcasts of live activities such as walks and game drives.

Some of the podcasts are recorded through the medium of audio description and are about making the visual world verbal. Blind and visually impaired persons are a sizeable portion of all communities, but such people cannot receive and absorb written information or visual stimuli about the parks, and audio recordings, with specific techniques of description, are a medium that enables our parks to become more accessible to listeners who cannot see. “Audio descriptions, although aimed at the visually impaired, are not exclusively for blind people, and are equally appealing to sighted people too, helping bring the parks alive for people in far-away places unable to travel to the parks, ” said Chris Patton, SANParks Content Manager: Visitor Management and Interpretation.

To listen to SANParks Podcasts please visit: www.sanparks.org/podcasts/

We hope you enjoy the benefits of this new feature on our website, and we look forward to having you listen in, and hope that we will be able to bring you a range of material in the time ahead.