Leo Oosterweghel

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Leo Oosterweghel

Profession	zoo director
Personal details
Born	? in Netherlands

Residence
Country	Ireland

Organisations

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

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

Oosterweghel was 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.

Leo Oosterweghel is mentioned on 1 elephant record pagesAsha,

Reference list

References

Koehl, Dan, (2026). director Leo Oosterweghel in Ireland. Elephant Encyclopedia, available online retrieved 11 April 2026 at https://www.elephant.se/person.php?id=846. (archived at the Wayback machine)

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