A TV show to increase awareness about the largest ecological disaster silently unfolding right around us. The focus will be on the tip of the spear, entrepreneurs battling Lionfish with all the might of free market capitalism against the venomous invasive species.

1. Hunters
Lionfish
Pterois 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!”

2. The Lionfish Disaster- A venomous invasive 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.
• Lionfish are quickly taking over these
areas. Scientists are now reporting up
to a 65% reduction of indigenous
species!!
• American (North, South and Central)
seafood, tourism, sport fishing, scuba
diving, beaches, boating and so much
more are all at risk.
• Now impacting and dominating coral reefs and almost all
other habitats from inshore down to 1000 feet in depth.
• Eating everything that will fit in their mouths!
• These invaders have no natural enemies in this hemisphere!

3. 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.

4. 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!

5. 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.

6. 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!

7. 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 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.
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.

8. 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?

9. Do you want to help us save paradise? All we need is:
Funding from Interested partner(s) Media Distribution
An 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!

10. 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!

11. Branded Heroes Lion Ptamers
retail stores?!
Adventure Bound Sports
• 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!

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

13. 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

14. Eyes Only: Black Ops
Fewer 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!

15. Creative Director Richard John Buchner III
Lion 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