Not at all, it’s a property crime. If you read the charge.
Whether the property is living or not doesn’t devalue human life. Not everything that has a stiff crime because it’s an animal devalues human life. If you are worried about such a short sentence devaluing human life, I am all for extending the sentences we give to people who injure or murder other people.
But punishing a guy for taking other people’s property (on an animal sactuary no less) isn’t devaluing anyone’s life. It is upholding property rights of the sanctuary. And it was a living piece of property that gave joy to a lot of other people that is no longer around to enjoy. He robbed a lot more people than the sanctuary on which the buck lived.