Dr Terri Roth

Dr. Roth is an Animal Reproductive Physiologist who has served as the Director of the Center for Conservation and Research of Endangered Wildlife (CREW) at the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden since 1996. Dr. Roth has conducted research with species ranging from toads to snow leopards but is most renowned for her scientific breakthroughs that led to the success in breeding the critically endangered Sumatran rhino. Dr. Roth has served on the board of the International Rhino Foundation since 2002 and has published over 200 scientific papers and abstracts. For her work with Sumatran rhinos, she was the recipient of a Chevron Texaco Conservation Award, “Honoring Our Environmental Heroes” in 2004 and received the AZA National Research Award in 2024. She is also the subject of an award-winning young people’s book, Emi and the Rhino Scientist, and in 2010 was named a YWCA Career Woman of Achievement in Cincinnati, OH.