A team of top scientists spent Saturday night in tents suspended from the roof of the Eden Project’s Rainforest Biome to help raise money for conservation in Borneo.

The group, who specialise in the science of the rainforest canopy, were sleeping in the Biome in special illuminated hanging tents, known as portaledges, as part of the Big Canopy Campout.

The Big Canopy Campout saw climbers, adventurers and researchers camp in forests around the world to raise money for the charity World Land Trust to buy a piece of rainforest along the Kinabatangan River in North Borneo.

The Eden campers included BBC cameraman Tom Crowley, who filmed the award-winning iguana and snakes sequence in Planet Earth 2, his colleague Ollie Laker who was responsible for the rope rigging on the TV series, and adventurer and Wanderlust magazine editor Phoebe Smith.

Eden staff members camped in tents and hammocks on the Biome walkways.

All the campers spent Sunday afternoon talking to Eden Project visitors about their work.