Dr. Gérard Rocamora is a Docteur-Ingénieur en Agronomie specialising in ecology (Institut Agro Montpellier – Université des Sciences et Techniques du Languedoc, Montpellier, and Universitat de Barcelona, 1987). His main areas of expertise and interest include birds and other terrestrial vertebrates, invasive species, and particularly rodents.

He has worked across Europe, Africa, tropical America, and the western Indian Ocean with organisations such as BirdLife International and its French partner LPO, IUCN, Conservation International, CEPF, and government institutions including the Seychelles Ministry of Environment.

A naturalised Seychellois originally from Catalonia (Spain) and France, Dr. Rocamora has been based in Seychelles since 1995. His work focuses on threatened species recovery, island rehabilitation programmes, ecosystem monitoring, and seabird studies. He has contributed to around 30 invasive alien species management programmes, leading 20 successful vertebrate eradications (mainly rodents) and over a dozen successful reintroductions and translocations of threatened birds and reptiles.

Affiliated for 20 years with the Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle (CRBPO & SPN/UMR 7204), Dr. Rocamora contributes to three specialist groups of the IUCN Species Survival Commission (Invasive Species, Translocations, and Red Data List). He is also a licensed bird ringer with SAFRING (University of Cape Town).

A former member of the Academic Committee of the University of Seychelles and an Associate Senior Lecturer since 2013, he regularly supervises MSc and PhD students and serves as an environmental adviser for private islands and companies. He is the initiator of the Island Biodiversity & Conservation Centre and a co-founder of the Island Conservation Society.

Fluent in several languages, Dr. Rocamora has authored or co-authored about 150 scientific and technical publications, including three books and eight chapters on threatened species and priority sites for conservation, around 45 peer-reviewed journal articles and conference papers, approximately 50 species monographs, and a range of contributions to international wildlife magazines, popular books, and sound guides.