Veà was a close associate and protégée of the doctor and discoverer of the white gorilla Copito de Nieve, Jordi Sabater Pi,[REF] with whom he shared research work on bonobos and pygmy chimpanzees in the jungle of Zaire in 1988 [REF].
In the year 2000 he completed an award-winning project on the fauna reserve of Conkovati (Congo-Brazzaville) [REF].