Ysbrand Brouwers, born Groenekan, The Netherlands and trained as a garden And landscape designer in Boskoop and at The Royal Art Academy in Copenhagen, Denmark In 1974 he moved to Bruinehaar an estate in the Eastern part of Holland where he still lives in an early eighteenth century farmhouse.

He is the founder and artistic director of Wildlife Art Promotion, (WAP) and Artists for Nature Foundation, (ANF). With ANF he has organised 14 conservation projects in 17 years world wide, resulted in numerous exhibitions in Europe and the USA. Eleven project books and four project videos have been published and released. ANF has worked with over 130 artists from more than 25 countries in collaboration with organisations like WWF, Bird life International, The Wildlife Trust, Clean Water Alliance, Glasgow Museums and Galleries, and Bosques Sin Fronteras.

He is a keen birder, photographer, art collector, gardener, and cook who tries to subsist from the land as much as he can. He has two sons and a daughter from an earlier marriage and lives and works together with his biologist wife, Dr. Manuela Seifert, ANF’s scientific adviser, and head of the ANF environmental education program.

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