Why get back on the raft of the peaks?

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Laos, star seen in the cinébubble.

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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 

(botanist and biologist),

(architect) and 

(botanist and organizer of expeditions in tropical forests) for the book 

 published by Actes Sud.

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