Hi, I’m Mark…49 years old. Born in California, raised in Texas, schooled in Utah, and now 24 years in Chelsea, Michigan. I worked for Pfizer for 20 years until they closed the site that I worked at, so I started a consulting business and now employ 8 other Pfizer refugees.

I love animals, especially reptiles. I think that conservation of our endangered species is extremely important, and I’m very concerned that so many animal species are declining so quickly.

I love my wife, my dog, my herps, and riding my motorcycles. I have a Yamaha Royal Star Venture and a Suzuki V-Strom DL-1000.

About Us:
My wife, Jane and I have been married for 22 years. We don’t have any kids, but lots, and lots of animals. We both love animals, the outdoors, and motorcycles.

I am President of the Board of the Great Lakes Zoological Society, a 501(c)(3) non-profit. The Great Lakes Zoological Society (GLZS) is currently working toward creating a destination conservation and Rescue Center in Ann Arbor , MI. The conservation center's walk through exhibits will have a focus on reptiles, amphibians, birds, fish, and invertebrates. Phase one involves fitting out the current 6100 square foot facility with a classroom, some retail space and 5000 square feet of exhibit space. The GLZS will need to secure enough funds to finance this ambitious project and open the doors by July 1, 2011. As the Center begins to secure additional funds through donations and grants, other phases will be implemented to expand the Center and add conservation and captive breeding programs. We currently employ a curator and two keepers; and we have a four member Scientific Advisory Board.

The goals of the Conservation and Rescue Center are four fold:
1. An educational destination for the school kids. Bringing the kids to the Center is less stressful on the animals than taking the animals to the schools.
2. Captive hatching & breeding conservation programs. We are actively seeking funding, but have begun captive breeding projects for Varanus Salvadorii, Testudo Horsfieldii, Dracaena guianensis, and Heloderma horridum xasperatum. We hope to get involved with captive hatching and head-starting indigenous turtle species.
3. Rescue and release of injured indigenous reptiles.
4. Rescue and placement of unwanted and neglected reptiles.

The Center's Curator, John Lebert has successfully bred 27 species of reptiles and amphibians and 15 species of exotic birds; including boas, pythons, salamanders, monitors & other lizards, macaws, cockatoos, softbills, conures, and various other Psitticines (parrots, hookbills).

Herps, conservation, motorcycles, N-scale model trains

You will find the following animals at the Conservation Center:

Gangji, Female Crocodile Monitor
Hoku, Female Crocodile Monitor
Mahuru, Male Crocodile Monitor
Solair, Male Asian Water Monitor
Chino, Male Peach Throat Monitor
Akili, Male Black Throat Monitor
Abelinda, Female Beaded Lizard
El Miedo, Male Beaded Lizard
Canela, Female Caiman Lizard
El Dorado, Male Caiman Lizard
Butchie, Female Rhino Iguana
Ariana, Female Rhino Iguana
Foster, Male Rhino Iguana
Rocky, Male Sulcata Tortoise
Apolo, Male Sulcata Tortoise
Gracie Lou, Female Red Foot Tortoise
Sunshine, Female Red Foot Tortoise
Anna, Female Russian tortoise
Boris, Male Russian tortoise
Esmeralda, Female Emerald Tree Boa
Slither, Female Brazilian Smooth Snake (AKA False Water Cobra)
Spectra, Female Juvenile Jungle Carpet Python
Electra, Female Juvenile Jungle Carpet Python
Ozzy, Male Jungle Carpet Python
Doháte, Male Argentine Boa
Angelina, Female Dumeril's boa
Josey, Female Dumeril's boa
Maddie, Female Dumeril's boa
Nellie, Female Nelson's Milk Snake
Repeat, Female Nelson's Milk Snake
Mari, Female Nelson's Milk Snake
Delilah, Female Sinaloan Milk Snake
Sampson, Male Sinaloan Milk Snake
Jasmine, Female Ball Python
Stanley, Male Ball Python
Goldfinger, Male Ball Python
Peanut, Male Ball Python
Mia, Female Tai Beauty Snake
Harley, Female Nigerian Uromastyx
Dyna, Female Nigerian Uromastyx
Tang, Male Nigerian Uromastyx
Pudge, Female Mali Uromastyx
Sidney, Male Bearded Dragon
Sundance, Male Bearded Dragon
Bufus, Female Cane Toad
Jasper, Male Columbian Boa
Stryker, Male Columbian Boa
Valley Girl, Female California Kingsnake
Lightening, Male Albino California Kingsnake
Sunkist, Female Tangerine Honduran Milk Snake
Corona, Male Tangerine Honduran Milk Snake
Sheena, Female Brazilian Rainbow Boa

Varanus Salvadorii
Heloderma horridum xasperatum
Dracaena guianensis
Testudo horsfieldii

18' Female Retic (Python reticulatus)
16' Female Berm (Python molurus bivittatus)
Cordylus giganteus
female Gekko ulikovskii
Pipa pipa
Phelsuma madagascariensis grandis
Paleosuchus palpebrosus
Hydrosaurus weberi
Basiliscus plumifrons
Dendrobatidae
Ambystoma mexicanum
Carettochelys insculpta
Platemys platycephala
Malacochersus tornieri
Latrodectus mactans
Scolopendra subpinipes mutilans
Chamaeleo melleri
Ramphastidae
Bucerotidae

medicinal chemist by training
20 years working for Pfizer
founded a business
still learning herpetology

www.glzszoo.com

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