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Henri Pittier

Swiss geographer and botanist

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establishment of Henri Pittier National Park

  • In Henri Pittier National Park

    …largely through the efforts of Henri Pittier, a Swiss geographer and botanist who studied and classified more than 30,000 plants in Venezuela. Pittier convinced the Venezuelan government that, without conservation efforts, the destruction of mountain forests would be inevitable and would create droughts in the Aragua Valley and hasten the…

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