Laurent Tillon is head of biodiversity at France's National Forestry Office, in charge of drawing up inventories of forest fauna, especially mammals and batrachians.
He is the author of Listening to Nature (Payot, 2018), the bestselling Being An Oak (Actes Sud, 2021), and Night Phantoms: Bats and humans (Actes Sud, 2023).
He lives in the heart of Rambouillet Forest.