Why get back on the raft of the peaks?
Audio 48:30
Laos, star seen in the cinébubble.
© JM Pechard
By: Caroline Lachowsky
1 min
Welcome to the raft of the peaks, a mind-blowing device, a kind of laboratory placed by inflatable balloon at the top of the tropical forests to study the incredible biodiversity of the equatorial canopy.
Perspectives from the researchers who shared these wonderful adventures.
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Meet from the top of the trees, in the canopy, around an extraordinary adventure: that of the raft of the peaks.
30 years of exploration of tropical forest canopies aboard a laboratory raft: an assembly of pontoons linked by a net delicately deposited using airships and inflatables at the top of the tropical forests of Africa, America from the South and Asia... A dozen mind-blowing expeditions that have made it possible to discover, identify and study the tremendous biodiversity, visible only from the top of the tropical forests...
With
Francis Hallé
(botanist and biologist),
Gilles Ebersolt
(architect) and
Olivier Pascal
(botanist and organizer of expeditions in tropical forests) for the book
Le Rafeau des cimes: 30 years of exploration of the equatorial forest canopies
,
published by Actes Sud.
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