Marc is conservation biologist, researcher, and a lecturer at York University’s Glendon College in Toronto.   He holds a Ph.D. in Biology, a Master of Environmental Studies and a Master of Business Administration.

Marc works across Toronto studying turtle populations and implementing conservation solutions to protect herpetofauna.  He also has field sites in Kenya, where he studies lion and hyena behaviour, landscape prey-traps, and human-wildlife conflicts and has recently discovered a new population of critically endangered pancake tortoises.  

Marc is the Chair of the Lewa Wildlife Conservancy Canada, a Canadian charity that supports various community conservation projects in Kenya, focusing on education, community development and protection of endangered species. 

He is a board director of the Turtle Survival Alliance of the Ontario Turtle Conservation Centre, a member of the IUCN Tortoise and Freshwater Turtle Species Specialist Group, and a board member of the Canadian Herpetological Society.  You can read more about his projects at marcdupuisdesormeaux.ca.