LionfishPterois volitans

The patriotic, environmental, reality, docu-drama ,TV show the planet needs now!

The worst ecological disaster in human history is silently unfolding right around us. Help us battle these invaders in a very public way to create

incredible life changing opportunities for veterans! Engaging Veterans on a their next battle as “Lion Ptamers!”

Hunters

The Lionfish Disaster- A venomous invasive species:

• Lionfish are quickly taking over these areas. Scientists are now reporting up to a 65% reduction of indigenous species!!

• Potentially ruining the $1.5 billion commercial fisheries in the Gulf of Mexico. The Caribbean, tropical and subtropical Eastern Atlantic (New York to Argentina) are all now being impacted as well.

• Now impacting and dominating coral reefs and almost all other habitats from inshore down to 1000 feet in depth.

• These invaders have no natural enemies in this hemisphere!

• Eating everything that will fit in their mouths!

• American (North, South and Central) seafood, tourism, sport fishing, scuba diving, beaches, boating and so much more are all at risk.

The right team will turn Disaster into Opportunity

• Many people are independently working on this disaster (scientists, fisherman, scuba divers, aquarium hobbyists, snorkelers, environmentalists, resort owners, hunters, chefs and entrepreneurs.) We want veterans to be the superstars.

• The big opportunity comes from assembling the right team battling the invaders, increasing awareness and building public support through entertainment in a self sustaining model.

Our base of operations will be in south Florida where the legend begins. DNA tests revealed as few as 6 pet lionfish, endemic to Indo-Pacific and the Red Sea, were released into the wild after outgrowing their tanks or escaped from aquariums in South Florida during hurricane Andrew; survived, are breeding, and are now wreaking environmental havoc like we have never seen!

Season 1 Show Format- Similar to “Deadliest Catch” each segment would shift locations and characters highlighting their fight with these invaders and how the “green horn” veterans are now joining the battle and being trained by our experts already in the field! Scene 1 6-7 minutes on Freddie Lentz in western Puerto Rico diving for lobster and other table fare, convincing local restaurants to try lionfish . Freddie, in PR for 25 years , is working on ways to catch more lions even in places too deep to dive and has plans for unique new ways to trap them. ENORMOUS new commercial fishing potential with Patents Pending!! Camera crews follow Freddie and the vets around underwater, with customers, helping test the new traps, dealing with sharks, storms, boats breaking down, learning the commercial fishing business.

Scene 2 6-7 minutes on Gary “Corky” Rogers also in Puerto Rico catching lionfish alive and selling them to pet stores across the USA. His fish will be all the rave of the pet industry! We will be able to provide “ Certificates of Authenticity” and even offer a “Lionfish kit,” for personal use or in science classrooms. Vets can learn Corky’s business methods and model so they can help expand his business or open their own franchised stations in affected areas supplying the demand the show will create.

Scene 3 6-7 Minutes on Alie El Hage Industrial Architect designer of the “Zookeeper” and other products to make hunting lions more productive and safer. He splits his time between Curacao and South Florida organizing hunting derbies that have removed 2400 lions in 48 hours! Vets would have great fun participating in and working these derbies or even working for Zookeeper in sales, marketing, fulfillment, manufacture, or design!

Scene 4 6-7 minutes on Bob Hickerson and Maria Andreu , competitors with Alie El Hage (above) prolific Lionhunters, Bob and fiancée Maria have developed a Lionfish eradication tool, they call the “Frapper”, designed to rid public enemy number 1, Lionfish. Organizing Lionfish derbies and teaching diving, the highly competitive duo devote all of their energy to eradication, another great training resource for the vets in their new lives!

Scene 5 We will use this segment to highlight veterans preparing for battle and being evaluated for the right mission:• swim and scuba training sessions• learning to spearfish, hunt, “read the reef” etc.• getting captains license from the Coast Guard • interviewing and working with scientists doing lionfish

research, even joining Dr. Green in the sub!• learning skills and business models from our Ptamers

Scene 6 6-7 minutes with our team of scientists, explorers, veterans, and evaluators discovering new locales impacted by the lionfish and interacting with the characters offering assistance and criticisms. This team will crown a king/queen of the Caribbean each season with a $100,000 prize to reinvest in their business. This team will assist in bringing in new vets, Ptamers, or products, for expansion to help with the new businesses, territories and ideas joining the battle.

Scene 5 Con’t• Working and hunting in the derbies signing autographs, etc.• Inspiring vets and viewers to become scientists, entrepreneurs and environmentalists• Creating and franchising new valuable businesses, partnerships,

and consumer products like food, medicines, pets, jewelry, etc. • Appearing in, participating in, and even narrating the show • Doing environmental education, selling fish, and even teaching

restaurants to make new dishes with lionfish filets, etc., etc. • This segment will have many great opportunities evolving.

The ultimate guest stars and narrators will line up to get involved!

Would any corporate sponsors want to have a stronger proactive environmental, patriotic, humanitarian image?

Do you want to help us save paradise? All we need is:

Funding from Interested partner(s) Media DistributionAn experienced partner in long lived high-concept reality or docu-drama programming Securing our own funding for the TV show is one of our highest priorities to keep us focused on our WIN-WIN Missions of saving the planet and repurposing our Veterans. This strategy will also give us more control of our own content. The integrity of our veterans, dedicated inventors, scientist and explorers is not negotiable.No need to invent “faux drama” on this show!

Each season “Lion Ptamers” can expand into new beautiful exotic locations and introduce new fascinating characters.

Season 2 could lead with Gynna Bush taking tourists on lionfish hunting excursions during the day. At night they dine in her sea-side café on the lionfish she cleans, prepares and cooks. The food is fantastic, she is beautiful, entertaining, interesting , smart, competitive and much larger than life! The Vets and the Viewers will LOVE her!

As the seasons unfold new Ptamers will broaden our reach into entirely new areas and industries. Everything from scientists using lionfish toxin in cancer research to the making beautiful natural jewelry from the exotic fins of the fish is in the works!

Branded Heroes Lion Ptamers retail stores?!

• Combine a travel agency, dive shop, and aquarium store where people can book and plan a vacation, learn to dive, buy our gear, or even collect their own fish from our sites for their home aquariums. Our trained personnel and existing logistics infrastructure will create loyal repeat customers for the Veterans.

• Keep expanding the scope of our products and travel agency for any mission based trips like: hunting, golf, tennis, safari’s, fishing charters, mountain climbing, and diving any where around the world.

• Every veteran and patriot will support us!

Adventure Bound Sports

Veterans need and will have a clear and important mission to re-engage them after active duty. Other opportunities created for:

Guilt Free Environmentalists and Entrepreneurs A truly rare and unique opportunity for fans, young and old alike, to engage, participate in and be inspired to become entrepreneurs. Another win-win opportunity will be the creation of so many patriotic environmental activists by doing FUN things like: taking a tropical adventurous extreme sport vacation, eating a gourmet meal, watching the show and donating $$ to their favorite Ptamer, or by having a very exotic pet to enjoy in your living room for years to come by supporting our veterans and Lion Ptamers with No Guilt or Sacrifice! This unique combination will make us unstoppable!

Our Media Partner will be airing a TV show with the best attributes from today’s top reality shows like Shark Tank, Deadliest Catch, Hell’s Kitchen and Survivor, all with a “Jacque Cousteau look”, will set the new standard for TV! Combining scuba diving with hunting the venomous invaders will be THE ultimate extreme sport/adventure. Set on tropical beaches in the palm trees and on boats, with sharks, moray eels, hurricanes, currents, the competition, the physical challenges, and daily business stresses will make this show the long lived powerful vehicle we need in this battle providing plenty of opportunity, entertainment, education, and excitement for veterans, viewers, sponsors and Ptamers alike!

Ptamer’s Characters can benefit by winning a life altering bonus of $100,000 they can use to expand their operations. Our team of evaluators will grade Ptamer’s results on based on several criteria (e.g. popularity, effectiveness and profitability).

Advertisers and sponsors will be able to participate in one of the best public relations opportunities ever created to engage a future customer base while portraying themselves as a proactive patriotic humanitarian environmental partner.

Manmade solution to help the Environment Everyone involved from sponsors to viewers will feel like they are helping vets in the fight against these lionfish until the ecosystem adjusts to their presence. We will all be doing what we can to keep the invaders in check with our repurposed heroes, the full force of the entrepreneurial spirit, environmental education, and increased awareness .

Business/Economic/Community Interests Battling the lionfish will help protect tourism, boating, fishing, scuba diving, commercial fishing, crabbing, lobster fishing all over the effected areas and for all other inter-related businesses and communities. Many new industries and businesses have sprung up since the lionfish have shown up and many more are on the way. Some of these burgeoning industries, ideas, and businesses have great potential and are very exciting, provided we can increase awareness of this disaster lurking just beneath the surface before it is too late!

Please, Before It’s Too Late!

"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Eyes Only: Black OpsFewer Americans every year do not realize one of the great attributes that makes the USA the shining city on the hill is the simple fact that we do not and have never relied on conquest and plunder to grow wealth. Free market capitalism opportunities for everyone is the main ingredient to our wealth growing recipe.

The Lion Ptamers TV show will be a great vehicle to send out this beautiful message every week in full camo. We will show the world how American Veterans are turning disaster into opportunity and create wealth in a real world WIN-WIN!

This black-ops mission is my personal battle for the soul of our country, my children and all present and future Americans. I want them to be able to live in and love that shining city on the hill like me. More Americans will learn this message from our show so we can set the example for the rest of the world to continue to follow. Let’s Roll!

Creative Director Richard John Buchner IIILion Ptamers ready to go; submitted to the Writers Guild of America!• Raised in Savannah, GA • 1981 Graduate -Benedictine Military Academy • B.S. in Zoology -University of Georgia • Commercial Fishing Experience from Alaska to the Florida

Keys• Dive Master, Scuba Instructor, Certified Tennis Pro,

Accomplished Competitive Swimmer, Lifeguard/Swimming Instructor

• Ecology/Scuba Instructor at Newfound Harbor Marine Institute and Seacamp, Big Pine Key, FL

• Started Marine Brokers of Atlanta- 1989 Tropical Fish wholesale business and sold it in 2006

• Long time friends with many of these characters from time in the fish business

• Diving experience in Puerto Rico, Florida Keys, Savannah, GA, Virgin Islands, Honduras, Roatan, Jamaica, Bahama’s , Mexico, Bali, Indonesia……

• Currently owner operator of RJB3 Games, patent holder of “Albert’s Insomnia”. Contact info:

Richard John Buchner III PH: 678-787-4524

Email: rjb63@msn.com