Stuart L. Pimm

Dr Stuart Pimm, Professor of Conservation at Duke University, is a global leader in the study of biodiversity, particularly contemporary extinctions and strategies to prevent them. Pimm leads Saving Nature www.savingnature.org, a non-profit organisation that utilises donations for carbon emissions offsets to support conservation groups in areas of exceptional tropical biodiversity, aiding in the restoration of degraded lands. Pimm is the author of nearly 400 scientific papers and five books, including the highly regarded evaluation of human impact on the planet: The World According to Pimm: A Scientist Audits the Earth. His awards include the MDPI International Sustainability Prize (2025), the Cosmos Prize (2019), the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement (2010), and the Dr A.H. Heineken Prize for Environmental Sciences, awarded by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (2006). He has been working in Africa since he joined the Conservation Ecology Research Unit at the University of Pretoria, South Africa, in 1996. In 2024, the institution awarded him an honorary DSc.