Animal Planet's new series reveals life-altering scientific discoveries

Animal Planet premieres WILD RECON, a 10-part series on Friday, August 06, 2010 at 9 PM featuring Donald Schultz, who is willing to do a job no one else dares. With support from the world's top veterinarians and animal researchers, he travels to remote and jeopardous locales to collect venom and rare DNA critical to cataloguing species and research that will one day save countless lives.

Announcing the series, Rahul Johri, senior vice president & general manager, India, Discovery Networks Asia-Pacific said, "Animal Planet's Masters of the Jungle time band at 9 pm features exceptionally talented hosts who engage the viewers with their passion, knowledge and dedication towards animals. The premiere series WILD RECON features adventurer John Schultz, who faces some of the Earth's mightiest, deadliest and most fascinating creatures in their natural habitats."

Whether harvesting venom from deadly black mambas in Mozambique, collecting lethal jellyfish tentacles off the remote coasts of Australia, chasing and relocating charging elephants in Sri Lanka, or bringing down a 600-pound wild African lion to get a blood sample in South Africa, Donald is fearless in the worldwide pursuit of bio-specimens for research and potential new scientific discoveries that he hopes will save lives. As Donald himself says, "This is not a stunt; this is my job."