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Francis Hallรฉ (French pronunciation: [fสษฬsis ale]; 15 April 1938 โ 31 December 2025) was a French botanist and biologist. He was a specialist on tropical rainforests and of tree architecture.[1] He is best known for the first "Radeau des cimes" ("Navigating the peaks") he initiated with an aerostatic balloon in 1986.[2] He was a Professor Emeritus at the University of Montpellier.[3]
In 2010, he and Luc Jacquet started to collaborate for a Wild-Touch film project, La Forรชt des pluies, a documentary about primary forests.
Hallรฉ died in 2025, at the age of 87.[4]
References
edit- ^ "13th Congress of the International Society of Ethnobiology". agropolis.fr. Archived from the original on 18 March 2016. Retrieved 16 April 2012.
- ^ "Botanist raises study for the forest from the air in Chile". bluechannel24.com. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 16 April 2012.
- ^ "Celebrated tropical botanist delivers last Centenary lecture" (PDF). web.up.ac.za/ (University of Pretoria). Retrieved 16 April 2012.[permanent dead link]
- ^ Disparition Mort du biologiste Francis Hallรฉ, grand dรฉfenseur des forรชts primaires
External links
edit- Francis Hallรฉ at IMDb
- A Primary Forest in Europe" (interview by Julien Leprovost)
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