Petzl
Petzl's roots lie in the desire of its founders to serve one passion: exploration. Since its beginnings in caving, the company’s mission has remained constant: to offer practical solutions that allow people to progress. Today that pioneering spirit, passion for exploration and ethic have not changed. More than forty years later, Petzl continues to invent products and provide solutions that allow sports enthusiasts and professionals to access some of the most inaccessible places, both day and night.
Conservation of difficult access ecosystems
Activities involving vertical access often take place in fragile sites of great natural beauty. The Petzl Foundation supports non-profit organizations whose role is to discover and protect biodiversity on cliffs, in caves and in mountain ranges.
UNITED STATES - HOW CALIFORNIA’S GIANT SEQUOIA RESPONDS TO DRAUGHT
California recently experienced an unprecedented 5-year drought (2012-2016) that led to declining growth rates and increasing mortality levels in many trees and forests (...)
FRANCE - SILENCE!
Europe’s mountains are easily accessible and have a highly developed infrastructure compared to mountain ranges elsewhere in the world. In these densely populated and highly frequented (...)
UNITED STATES - YOSEMITE ENJOYS A MAJOR CLEAN-UP
In 2017, they collected more than three tonnes of litter from the trails and the zones around the cliffs. Clean-up operations have also taken place on the famous big wall of El Capitan (...)
FRANCE - MOUNTAIN WILDERNESS FRANCE, TO PRESERVE THE MOUNTAINS
The Mountain Wilderness France association defends a global approach to the mountains where conservation of the natural environment and improving the economy (...)
FRANCE - VERTICAL ECOLOGY
The ‘Vertical Ecology’ project, supported by the Écrins National Park and the Alpine Ecology Laboratory, is a botanical study of the origin and evolution of plants in high mountains. (...)
WORLDWIDE - SEEKING THE LAST LOST WORLDS
The adventurer Evrard Wendenbaum set out on a series of scientific expeditions to discover the last unexplored areas on the planet. His project called "Lost Worlds" aims to gain knowledge of the last remaining biological treasures (...)
UNITED STATES - RENOVATED TRAILS FOR INDIAN CREEK
Climbing sites in Indian Creek and Donally Canyon in Utah are among the most famous in the American West. Due to its popularity with both climbers and hikers (...)
UNITED STATES - WORKING TOGETHER TO PROTECT WILD PLACES
The Conservation Alliance’s mission is to engage businesses to fund and partner with organizations to protect threatened, wild places in North America. They collect annual membership (...)
VIETNAM - RESEARCHERS IN THE TREETOPS
In September 2015, researchers from the Paris Natural History Museum organized a scientific expedition in Vietnam, to the Cuc Phong National Park, which was created in 1962 (...)
INDONESIA - SCIENTIFIC EXPLORATION IN PAPUAN KARSTS
For two months, the Franco-Indonesian expedition Lengguru 2014 explored the heart of theforest of West Papua (Indonesia) (...)
UNITED STATES - WORKING WITH ARON RALSTON TO PROTECT UTAH'S REDROCK DESERT CANYONS
In 2003, climber, adventurer and wilderness advocate, Aron Ralston was trapped by a falling boulder in Utah's remote Blue John Canyon. (...)
MAURITANIA - THE MEDITERRANEAN MONK SEAL, AN ENDANGERED SPECIES
The monk seal, a rare Mediterranean species, is in critical danger of extinction on a world-wide level. (...)
CAMEROON - RESEARCH IN THE CANOPY
To better understand and protect tropical forests, researchers need access to the canopy. In November 2013, two members of the EnQuête d'Arbres association went to Cameroon (...)
FRANCE - THE BEARDED VULTURE RETURNS TO THE ALPS
A magnificent bird with an approximate wingspan of three meters, the bearded vulture was disappearing from the Alps at the beginning of the 20th century, a victim of legends (...)
ARGENTINA - ENCOURAGE RESPECTFUL CLIMBS IN A MAJOR SITE: PIEDRA PARADA
In the heart of the Patagonian desert, in the Province of Chubut (Argentina), Piedra Parada, the "stone", rises like a monolith. Behind her, La Buitreta Canyon (...)
MADAGASCAR - EXPLORING THE LAST EDEN OF THE MAKAY
A mountain range in south-west Madagascar, the Makay is one of the last unexplored areas of the island. To study the exceptional biodiversity of the Makay, two scientific expeditions (...)
FRANCE - LIVING WITH THE BONELLI'S EAGLE, AN ENDANGERED SPECIES
The Bonelli's Eagle, a large bird of prey typically found in Mediterranean regions, has become increasingly rare over the twentieth century. (...)
CHILE - AN UNDERGROUND SCIENTIFIC EXPEDITION DEEP IN CHILEAN PATAGONIA
The Madre de Dios archipelago is an exceptional site for scientific research being totally isolated and in an extreme geographic location (...)
REUNION ISLAND - SUCCESSFUL COHABITATION OF TROPICBIRDS AND CLIMBERS
The White-tailed Tropicbird, emblematic of the Reunion Island, has been dislodged from its usual nesting areas. Indeed, the cliffs where they used to nest were partially covered(...)
AUSTRIA - KIDS EXPLORE GLACIERS
The area of the ÖtztalerAlpen is part of the European Union Network Natura 2000. The glaciers here are the second largest in the Eastern Alps. (...)
FRANCE - PROTECT BATS WITH CAVERS
The Rhône-Alpes region hosts 30 of the 34 species of French bats. Despite its lack of popularity, they are all protected species (...)
FRANCE - PHENOCLIM, A SCIENTIFIC AND EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM MEASURING CLIMATE CHANGE
Phénoclim invites the public to measure the impact of climate change on the vegetation of the Alps by making simple observations. (...)
UNITED STATES - KENTUCKY: ENSURE ACCESS TO RED RIVER GORGE CLIMBING SITE
The Red River Gorge Climbers' Coalition (RRGCC) is a group of climbers that has come together to protect, promote and guarantee responsible climbing (...)
FRANCE - THE VULTURES ARE SETTLING IN THE BARONNIES
Present in the Mediterranean coast until the early twentieth century, the vultures may have just disappeared from the French landscape. The causes are related to man: hunting, poisoning (...)
MOZAMBIQUE - THE LAST MYSTERIES OF MOUNT NAMULI
With its imposing granite cliff face standing a gigantic 700m tall, the Namuli, 2,419m, is the second highest mountain in Mozambique. The civil war and the difficulties involved in accessing it (...)
MADAGASCAR - ECOTOURISM TO PROTECT THE TSINGY, THE STONE FOREST
The Tsingy of Bemaraha offer one of the most spectacular sights on the Big Island. Here are real rock cathedrals of limestone sculpted into blades or sharp needles (...)