I’m honoured to be the recipient of the BBVA Foundation’s 7th Biophilia Award in Environmental Humanities and Social Sciences.

You can read the full press release about the award on the BBVA Foundation’s website.

Philosopher Thom van Dooren receives the BBVA Foundation’s 7th Biophilia Award for what the committee describes as his “central role” in “understanding and addressing species extinction.” The work of the Sydney University professor has, it says, made fundamental contributions in conveying the “value and significance of biodiversity,” and “providing an ethical and philosophical reframing of humanity’s relationship with nature.”