GERARDO CERÓN
Conservation Coordinator – El Impenetrable Project
Gerardo has a PhD in Biology from the National University de Comahue, in Bariloche. At 10 years old, he moved from Buenos Aires to Dina Huapi, a small village close to the Patagonia mountains. There, his love of nature deepened and at that young age he decided to become a biologist. After spending 12 years studying the Torrent duck, a species threatened with extinction, he came to understand that to merely study a species is not enough, on has to “get one’s hand dirty” and act in order to change the course of conservation. That led him to begin to work with Rewilding Argentina in 2017, on the Impenetrable Project. For two years, he conducted the baseline studies of vertebrates in the park, cataloguing over 500 species. He is currently the Coordinator of Rewilding for this project, taking the first steps to restore proper ecological functions to Impenetrable through the reintroduction of species extinct in the region and by using satellite technology to monitor key species.