Kerry Bowman is a Canadian bioethicist and conservationist based in Toronto, Ontario. Career Bowman holds an academic appointment with The University of Toronto in Family and Community Medicine and serves with The University of Toronto's School of the Environment. He has also worked with patients as a clinical bioethicist. Bowman follows a range of bioethical issues, including end-of-life decision making, ethical questions in emerging technology, such as genomics, gene drive and CRISPR-Cas9, cloning and reproductive ethics. He is also concerned with a variety of animal and environmental ethical questions, particularly de-extinction. As a member of the University of Toronto's team of Breaking News Experts, Bowman has been consulted extensively throughout the COVID-19 pandemic for his insights on its ethical implications for governments, medical practitioners, patients and the general public. Bowman's role as an ethicist informs the work he does as a wildlife conservationist, which focuses primarily on the great apes, as well as the interface of human cultures with conservation initiatives. Bowman has done fieldwork with all four great ape species in both Indonesia and Central Africa. He has observed in their natural habitat the Sumatran rhinoceros (Aceh, Sumatra, Indonesia, 1981), the Bactrian camel (Gashun Gobi Desert, western China, 2012), the Javan rhino (Ujung Kulon National Park, Java, Indonesia, 2013), as well as all species of big cats, including the snow leopard (Hemis National Park, Ladakh region, India, 2015). A former member of the board of directors for the Jane Goodall Institute of Canada, Bowman is an ethics consultant to Jane Goodall Institute Global and the founding president of the Forest Health Alliance (formerly called Canadian Great Ape Alliance). With the original goal of saving the great apes from extinction through a direct Congolese partnership, this organization operates and oversees projects in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) that are designed to reflect local cultures, as well as economic and political realities. This includes the Great Ape Habitat Connectivity Project, which has been developing a habitat corridor for the eastern lowland gorilla and eastern chimpanzees to promote gene flow and reduce deforestation. Bowman established the Kahuzi-Biega Environmental School in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo in 2003. The initiative was designed to give young students an opportunity to acquire a basic education as well as an understanding of their role in environmental and wildlife conservation. "There's absolutely no way of protecting the environment without working with local people and