Venancio, born in the municipality of Timbiqui, has been working with Fundación ProAves of Colombia since June 2012 in the Rana Terribilis Natural Reserve. He is a great community leader of the Afro-Colombian communities of the Colombian Pacific, and with his constant and systematic follow-up has restored one of the most threatened frog populations on the planet, the Endangered Golden Poison Frog (Phyllobates terribilis).