1. Eugène B.A.W. Bruins
Annadaal 27
6715 JA Ede
The Netherlands
Tel.: +31 - 318 624213
Mobile: +31 - 6 4191 8367
info@zoologicalservices.eu
www.eugenebruins.nl
Born 29 June 1968
Sons Pepijn (08-10-1999) and Jochem (14-02-2002)
Hobby’s: writing (Author Encyclopaedia of Terrarium and numerous
articles), keepingand breeding animals, travelling, diving, sport (squash
and ski,) photography and film productions, nature walks
Director, Zoo Hoyerswerda July 2016 – present
Reponsible for the whole zoo
Parental leave replacement, for max 1.5 years
Curator, National Marine Aquarium, Plymouth, Engeland September 2015 – March 2016
Masterplan, collection plan, storyline
Projectleader: development new unique exhibits (e.g. shark exhibition with most shark species in UK)
Manager Discovery & Learning, Animal husbandry, researchers and conservationists
Senior Management Team
Trustee Plymouth Marine Science & Education Foundation (PlyMSEF)
Maintain and improving quality of displays and interpretation
Funding and grants
Regional Curator Germany, SEA LIFE, Display Development Depart March 2012 – March 2015
Maintaining and improving quality
Developing new displays and animal species; compelling propositions for SEA LIFE worldwide.
Managing 9 curators
Organisation trainings and meetings
Representation of SEA LIFE, e.g. at conferences
Initiation of conservation and breeding projects
Development and improvement of policy‘s and protocols
Founder and owner Zoological Services End 2009 – present
Consultancy animal related projects and problems
Production of a collection plan for a new public aquarium in New Delhi
Consultancy and management in the Castle gardens in Arcen, the Netherlands
Consultancy for Zodiac Zoos: Aquarium, Butterfly house, Insectarium, Nocturnal house and more
Consultancy and collection plan for a new North sea part at Dolfinarium Harderwijk
Expedition at primary forest ‘Batang Toru’, Sumatra: supporting conservation project
Monitoring (GPS) reptiles, amphibians, evertebrates and plants in 5 areas at the Hoge Veluwe, for the
National Forest Ministry.
Representation “Pangea Rocks” at the 2010 EAZA conference: result: ± 20 potential projects.
Curator lower vertebrates and evertebrates, Artis Royal Zoo – Amsterdam May 1999 – Jan 2010
Managing 15 animal keeper (Aquarium, Reptile house and Insectarium)
Development new displays and exhibitions (e.g. Butterfly house and Insectarium)

2. Registrar
Chair NVD (Dutch Zoo Federation) working group „Aquarium and Terrarium“
Conservation: eg: won a golden award for the EAZA turtle campaign.
Member NVD working group diving (achieving a new dive law)
Member in specialist groups ‚Dangerous animals‘ and ‚Threatened animals‘ for the Ministry
Coordinator Antivenoms in Holland, and initiator of the Dutch antivenom depot
Coordinator EAZA/EUAC - FAITAG Cardinalfish-ASP
Member EAZA Amphibian & Reptile TAG (Coordinator „Agamids“ Regional Collection Plan)
Production of a collection plan for the Vivarium at the Botanical garden in Salé, Morocco
Coordinator World Ocean Day in Artis
Specialist luminous organisms, humming birds, robber crab and termites
Teacher „Aquarium and Terrarium“, IPC-Dier in Barneveld August 1993 – April 1999
Development of tutorials and courses for students and professionals
Study Entomology, Wageningen University August 1987 – March 1993
Further study, courses:
● Course „Practical management“ (six days)
● Course „Effective leadership“ (six days)
● EAZA Breeding Programme Management Course
● Course „Lifesaving actions“ (fire, medical emergencies), 2008|
● Coaching, by Willem Leufkens (six days), 2008|
● Amphibian Conservation Husbandry Course, Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust, 2 weeks, 2008
● Oxygen provider instructor course, February 2014
Social competence:
Motivated, cooperative colleague and successful manager. Being reliable and flexible, able to create a
team and get effective results. Representative. Easy communicating. Tactical. Driven mostly by
conservation opportunities.
References:
Rob Hicks, director
Merlin Animal Welfare and Development department
Tel. 0044 7977 990519; E-mail: rob.hicks@merlinentertainments.biz
Marc Damen
Rotterdam zoo, director
Tel. 0031 10 4431 426; E-mail: m.damen@rotterdamzoo.nl
Max Janse
Curator Burgers’ Ocean, Burgers’ Zoo, Arnhem
Tel. 0031 26-3537213; E-mail: m.janse@burgerszoo.nl
Stefan Inselmann, Project Manager new SEA LIFE center,
Merlin Animal Welfare and Development department.
Tel. 0049 157 73009022; E-mail: stefan.inselmann@merlinentertainments.biz
Fabian Schmidt, Kurator, Zoo Leipzig.
Tel. 0049 341 – 5933530; E-mail: fschmidt@zoo-leipzig.de

3. ATTACHEMENT I: Presentations
 SEA LIFE in Germany; display and breeding projects in 2013. EUAC congress, Billund,
Danmark, 2013.
 The Banggai cardinalfish, threatened or threatening? EUAC congress, Valencia, Spain, 2009.
(current status, and observations done during private expedition to Sulawesi)
 Breeding the short tail nurse shark, Pseudoginglymostoma brevicaudatum (Günther, 1866) at
Artis Royal Zoo – Amsterdam, for the first time in captivity. EUAC congres, Valencia, Spanje,
2009.
 Breeding Dobbs lizard Uromastyx acanthinura nigriventris & expedition to its natural
environment in Morocco. Green Iguana specialist group, 17 October 2009
 Red forest ants in Artis. Presentation at opening forest ant enclosure at Ecomare, Texel,
24 August 2009
 Breeding the short tail nurse shark, Pseudoginglymostoma brevicaudatum (Günther, 1866) at
Artis Royal Zoo – Amsterdam, for the first time in captivity. Poster at the International
Aquarium Conference, Shanghai, China, 2008.
 “The amphibian crisis, biosecurity”. RAVON (Reptiles-Amphibian-Fish Research Netherlands)
meeting, 8 November 2008
 Four presentations at the Dutch amphibian course for zoo keepers, concerning the amphibian
crisis, amphibian biology, amphibian food and breeding. 5-8 November 2008, Rotterdam Zoo
and Antwerp Zoo
 Termites at Artis Royal Zoo - Amsterdam. EAZA conference, Antwerp, 2008
 The use of Tamoxifen to prevent egg production in a Burmese python, Python molurus
bivittatus. 5th World Congres of Herpetology, Stellenbosch, South-Africa, 2005.
 Parthenogenesis in the Burmese python, Python molurus bivittatus.
5th World Congress of Herpetology, Stellenbosch, South-Africa, 2005.
 Visitors-Power Point for “World Ocean Day at Artis”; 2005 & 2006
 “Dealing with dangerous animals in developing countries”. Complete educative day in the
college series “Medicine in developing countries”, University of Utrecht, 2002-2007.
 Husbandry of Pseudoginglymostoma brevicaudatum. Poster at the International Aquarium
Conference, Monterey Bay, USA, 2004.
 10 Years after rediscovering the Banggai cardinalfish. 20th EUAC meeting, La Rochelle, 2002.
 Animal Transaction Policy in Artis Zoo - Amsterdam, with examples of its practicality for lower
vertebrate and invertebrate transactions. EAZA conference, Prague, 2001
 Since 1986 many lectures at animal clubs and working groups, national and local.

4. ATTACHMENT II: Bibliography
Books:
● Bruins, E., 1999. Encyclopaedia of Terrarium. Rebo-productions, Lisse. 320 pp & 865 own pictures.
This book is translated in English, German, Spanish, Polish, Tsjechisch, Greecish, Hungarian
● Haenen, O.L.M., E.B.A.W. Bruins, P.J. Sondervan & J.H. van Weerd, 2002. Ziekten bij siervissen,
diagnostiek en therapie. Diergeneeskundig memorandum 49 (2), 62 pp. (Book about fish diseases)
Other publications:
● Bruins, E., Brown, C., Rees, E., Walenciak, O. & L Watson, to be submitted: Notes on reproductive
biology in the Blacktip reef shark, Carcharhinus melanopterus (Quoy & Gaimard, 1824), with specific
finding on maximum litter size
● Bruins, E., 2013. Die Afrikanische Geisselspinne. Reptilia, vol 104 (Dezember 2013), 18(6), pp 60-
66. (About Tailless Whip spiders).
● Bruins, E., 2012. Serie on the Spiny tailed lizards (Uromastux acanthinura nigriventris):
Ervaringen met de Afrikaanse doornstaartagame. Het Aquarium, vol 82, no. 10, pp 24-33
Succesvolle kweek met de Afrikaanse doornstaartagame. Het Aquarium, vol 82, no. 11, pp 16-20
De Afrikaanse doornstaartagame in Marokko. Het Aquarium, vol 82, no. 12, pp 12-17
(Three articles about the Spiny tailed lizard: 1) experiences in keeping; 2) breeding; 3) in Morocco)
● Bruins, E., 2012. De kweek met de Afrikaanse zweepspin. Het Aquarium, vol 82, no. 9, pp 4-10
● Bruins, E., 2011. Banggais in der Lembeh-Strasse – nicht bedroht, sondern bedrohlich. DATZ, vol
64, no.1 (2011), pp 40-42. (Banggai[ cardinalfish not threatened but threatening in Lembeh Strait).
This text was published in several English, French and Dutch magazines as well.
● Dral, A.J., E. Bruins & M. Dernjatin, 2008. Breeding the short tail nurse shark,
Pseudoginglymostoma brevicaudatum (Günther, 1866) at Artis Royal Zoo – Amsterdam, for the first
time in captivity. Poster at the International Aquarium Conference in Shanghai, China, 2008.
● Bruins, E., 2007. Amfibieëncrisis door chytrideschimmel. Dendrobatidae Nederland Magazine, vol.
19, no.4 (2007), pp 7-11. This article has also been placed, in similar shape and time, in the
following magazines: Lacerta, Podarcis (webzine), Grasduinen, Artis Magazine.
● Bruins, E., 2007. Termites at Artis Royal Zoo, Amsterdam. International Zoo News, vol. 54, no.6
(2007), pp 332-336.
● Bruins, E., 2007. Natura Artis Magistra, 1838, Amsterdam, pp 113-118. In Murphy, J.B.,
“Herpetological History of the Zoo and Aquarium World”. Krieger Publishing Company, Melbourne,
327pp.
● Dral, A.J. & Bruins, E., 2004. Husbandry of Pseudoginglymostoma brevicaudatum. Poster at the
International Aquarium Conference in Monterey Bay, USA, 2004.
● Groot, TVM, E. Bruins & J.A.J. Breeuwer, 2003. Moleculair genetic evidence for parthenogenesis in
the Burmese python, Python molurus bivittatus. Heredity 90, 130-135
● Bruins, E.B.A.W., M.A. Moreau, K.E. Lunn, A. Vagelli & H. Hall, 2003. 10 Years after rediscovering
the Banggai cardinalfish. Proceedings of the 20th EUAC meeting, La Rochelle, 2002. CD ROM
● Dral, A.J., A. du Bois, M. Schuurman, D. Platvoet & E. Bruins, 2002. Captive breeding of
Heterodontus francisci and its problems. Proceedings of the 19th EUAC meeting, Rotterdam.
● Dral A.J., E.B.A.W. Bruins, P.J. Sondervan, R. Borg, D. Platvoet, J. Kouwenberg & D.J. de Heus,
2001. An Infestation of Cirolana cf parva in the Artis Aquarium, and its control. Bulletin de l'Institut
océanographique, Monaco, no spécial 20, fascicule 1: pp 239-243 (= Proceedings EUAC congress
in Monaco, 2000)
● Bruins, E.B.A.W., 2001. Animal Transaction Policy in Artis Zoo - Amsterdam, with examples of its
practicality for lower vertebrate and invertebrate transactions. Proceedings EAZA conference 2001,
Prague, 107 – 112.
● Bruins, E.B.A.W., E. Wajnberg & G.A. Pak, 1994. Genetic variability in the reactive distance in
Trichogramma brassicae after automatic tracking of the walking path. Entomol. exp. appl. 72: 297-303
● Bruins, E., 1986 – 1998. More than 30 publications in „Het Aquarium“, about e.g.:
Mexican Redknee tarantula, Waterdragons, Breeding walking sticks (Oreophoetus peruana;
Heteropteryx dilatata); Breeding the gecko Paroedura pictus; Breeding the agamid Phrynocephalus
versicolor; Breeding attempt barber shrimps (S. hispidus); Ratsnakes; Scorpions; Malayan leopard
frog (Rana signata); Breeding the Orchid praying mantis (Hymenopus coronatus); Breeding the
Killifish Epiplatys singa; Whip spiders; Armoured catfishes

5. ATTACHMENT III: Television appearances
Year Net and program Subject
● 1990 RTL Veronique, Beestenboel Tarantulas as pets
● 1990 RTL Veronique, Beestenboel The terrarium hobby: insects
● 1993 OverDieren TV Terrarium hobby
● 1996 NCRV: “De beesten de baas” The passion for mantids
● 1999 SBS6: Hart van Nederland Escaped Fer the Lance in Enkhuizen
● 2001 AVRO: Alle dieren tellen mee Amsterdam Canal aquarium in Artis
● 2002 AVRO Zipzoo, afl 26 Tarantulas in the Artis Insectarium
● 2002 SBS6, Hart van Nederland Prikkebeen Insect exhibition
● 2002 NOS Jeugdjournaal Weighing Aldabra giant tortoises
● 2002 RTL5, 5 in het land Weighing Aldabra giant tortoises
● 2003 SBS6, Stem van Nederland Parthenogenetic reproduction in Burmese
pythons
● 2004 AVRO’s Dierenpark Artis,afl 2 Seisure of hundreds tarantulas and scorpions
● 2004 Jeugdjournaal The many wasps that summer
● 2004 RTV Noord Holland: nieuws Removing crocodile eggs
● 2005 SBS6, Hart van Nederland Turtles and EAZA Shellshock Campaign
● 2006 AT5 nieuws Arrival termite mount in Artis
● 2007 RTV N.H.: Van Aap tot Zoenvis (serie) Termites and butterfly pavilion in Artis
● 2007 AT5: Watervogels, afl. 7 Fresh sea water for Artis Aquarium
● 2008 Teleac-NOT: Huisje boompje beestje Camouflage: walking sticks, crocodiles and
stone fish
● 2008 AJAX TV Stress control when meeting a tarantula,
with AJAX football players
● 2008 Teleac-NOT (Zapp): Nieuws uit de Natuur Amphibian crisis and chytrid fungus
● 2009 AT5: Kort Amsterdams Diving in the Artis aquariums
● 2010 Promo “Safari Netherlands” Promo for own TV show
Tangram media productions
● 2011 Omroep Gelderland: Gelderse Koppen Managing a neighbourhood pond
● 2011 Omroep Gelderland: Hallo Terrarium hobby and bourses
Live, talkshow (with spider and snake)
● 2012 German SWR (Tagesschau) Catch and transport of Cuban crocodiles
and SAT1 (Live)
● 2015 BBC Spotlight Arrival twosandtigersharksfromAfrica
& ITV News to Plymouth
● 2015 BBC Spotlight Arrival twoadultlemonsharks
& ITV News fromEmmenZoo to Plymouth