University at Buffalo School of Law Digital Commons @ University at Buffalo School of Law Journal Articles Faculty Scholarship Spring 4-1-2018 Saving Species, One Individual at a Time: Zoo Veterinarians Between Welfare and Conservation Irus Braverman University at Buffalo School of Law Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.law.buffalo.edu/journal_articles Part of the Animal Law Commons, and the Zoology Commons Recommended Citation Irus Braverman, Saving Species, One Individual at a Time: Zoo Veterinarians Between Welfare and Conservation, 9 Humanimalia 1 (2018). Available at: https://digitalcommons.law.buffalo.edu/journal_articles/922 First published in Humanimalia volume 92, number 2, https://www.depauw.edu/humanimalia/issue%2018/ braverman.html. This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Faculty Scholarship at Digital Commons @ University at Buffalo School of Law. It has been accepted for inclusion in Journal Articles by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ University at Buffalo School of Law. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. HUM a N I M A L I A 9:2 Irus Braverman Saving Species, One Individual at a Time: Zoo Veterinarians Between Welfare and Conservation Figure 1. Reticulated giraffe at the St. Louis Zoo. Photo by Robert Lawton, Nov. 11, 2005. CC BY-SA 3.0. “I save a species, one individual at a time.” --- Kelly Helmick (DSM). Supervisory Medical Officer, Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute; Former President, American Association of Zoo Veterinarians (personal communication, February 15, 2016) Who Killed Marius? On February 9, 2014, two-year old giraffe “Marius” was killed at the Copenhagen Zoo.