Biologist and activist for biodiversity and endangered African wildlife, at the risk of his own life. He has worked for the Spanish Cooperation Agency in Equatorial Guinea and as a biologist in Bolivia, Venezuela, Brazil, Paraguay and Peru. He has headed several national parks in Africa: Monte Alén in Equatorial Guinea, Zakouma in Chad from 2001 to 2007, at which time the recorded elephant population rose from 1,500 in 1990 to 3.500 by the end of 2007. He then took over the Garamba national park in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where he worked until 2014, when he moved to the Dzanga Sangha reserve in the Central African Republic.