Stuart Pimm
Doris Duke Chair of Conservation Ecology at the Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University
“Practical Solutions for Preventing Extinction”
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Professor Stuart Leonard Pimm is the Doris Duke Chair of Conservation Ecology at the Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke University. He studies present day extinctions and what can be done to prevent them. Pimm wrote the acclaimed assessment of the human impact to the planet: The World According to Pimm: a Scientist Audits the Earth in 2001. Pimm directs SavingSpecies, a 501c3 non-profit that restores degraded lands in areas of exceptional tropical biodiversity.His international honours include the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement (2010), the Dr. A.H. Heineken Prize for Environmental Sciences from the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (2006), the Society for Conservation Biology’s Edward T. LaRoe III Memorial Award (2006), and the William Proctor Prize for Scientific Achievement in 2007 from Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society. Pimm received his BSc degree from Oxford University in 1971 and his PhD from New Mexico State University in 1974.
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