 The Executive Director is Pam Fulk.Carolina Tiger Rescue was founded as The Carnivore Evolutionary Research Institute in 1973 by Dr. Michael Bleyman, a geneticist at UNC, as a research facility for carnivores that were vanishing keystone species — species critical to the survival of their ecosystem.Bleyman's intent was to keep a viable population of these animals in trust until their home habitats were sufficiently protected to support them again.