Leo Oosterweghel

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Leo Oosterweghel
Leo  Oosterweghel

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Personal details
Country Ireland

Organisations

Title Honorary Life Member
Organisation at World Association of Zoos and Aquaria

Locations
Title director 2001-2020
Location at Dublin Zoo in Ireland

Title director 1996-2001
Location at Melbourne Zoo in Australia

Title taxonomist
Location at Naturalis Biodiversity Center in Netherlands

Title zookeeper
Location at Wassenaar Zoo in Netherlands

Biography details

Leo Oosterweghel , zoo director in Ireland

Born ? in Netherlands .

Mr Oosterweghel is the son of a pharmacist from the Dutch provincial city of Leiden. As a youngster he kept stick insects and went on wildlife treks. Later he worked as Zookeeper in neraby Wassenaar Zoo.

From there he got a full-time job at a Dutch museum Naturalis Biodiversity Center in Leiden where he began taking related courses and programmes.


When Leo Oosterweghel walked through the doors of a small zoo in his home town around 50km west of Amsterdam at the age of 15 to start his first summer job he didn’t think for a moment he was setting out on a trail that would take him across Africa and Australia and end up in Ireland, where he would be instrumental in saving an institution from extinction.



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References

Koehl, Dan, (2024). director Leo Oosterweghel in Ireland. Elephant Encyclopedia, available online retrieved 28 March 2024 at https://www.elephant.se/person.php?id=846. (archived at the Wayback machine)

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