Bruce worked for 25 years in the International Affairs program at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, implementing the CITES Convention and investigating wildlife trafficking networks. He has also worked in the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Oceans and Environmental and Scientific Affairs, TRAFFIC, the World Wildlife Fund, in wildlife film production, and volunteered at the National Zoo’s reptile house and the Smithsonian’s marine invertebrate specimen collection. Bruce also serves on the Board of the Turtle Conservancy and the Turtle Conservation Fund.  He holds a bachelor’s and master’s degree from the University of Massachusetts and the University of Virginia. He lives outside Washington, DC, but keeps a little cottage among the iguanas of the U.S. Virgin Islands.