Francis Hallé: "90% of the forest has disappeared globally!"

A fire devastated part of the Angeles National Forest in August 2020. Here a photo from August 13th.

REUTERS / Patrick T. Fallon

By: Anne-Cécile Bras Follow

1 min

Biologist, explorer, specialist in tropical forests, Francis Hallé alerts us to the importance of preserving the few forests that still exist.

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As fires ravage Brazilian and Californian forests, this ardent defender of the plant world reminds us that a forest is not just an addition of trees, it is much more than that.

He has also just founded an association: the

Francis Hallé

association

for primary forest

to revive primary forest in Western Europe.

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