Doc Antle

Bhagavan "Doc" Antle is director of The Institute of Greatly Endangered and Rare Species (TIGERS), a world-renowned wildlife preserve in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, and founder of the Rare Species Fund, which supports animal conservation projects in situ around the world. The TIGERS preserve and its sister projects in Miami, Florida, and Carver, Massachusetts, receive more than three million visitors a year. The preserve has raised and trained more than four hundred big cats since its inception in 1983 and is considered one of the foremost private wildlife facilities in the world.