Fantastic expedition to rain forest canopy locates new species

 
By David Zizzo
Published: August 14, 2007

As the moon rose over a bay beside the remote, mountainous rain forest, Dante Fenolio was on the ropes. Literally.

Moonlight spilled over the clouds, the tops of which were lower than Fenolio's perch in a climbing harness 70 feet above the forest floor. There, using part of an innovative system developed by a French company for traversing and living in, even on , the forest canopy, Fenolio was attached to ropes fixe...


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