Sandra Díaz awarded 2025 The Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement

We are thrilled that our colleague,  Sandra Díaz has been awarded the 2025 Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement for her extraordinary work linking biodiversity to humankind.

The award recognises her “commitment to understanding and addressing biodiversity loss and its impact on human societies.”

Sandra and her fellow awardee, Eduardo Brondízio, are the first individual recipients from South America to receive the Tyler Prize.

Sandra Díaz is one of the world’s leading ecologists, celebrated for her interdisciplinary work, her research on vascular plant functional traits, their responses to the environment and their impact on ecosystems and human well-being. Her leadership has been instrumental in shaping the global conversation about the biodiversity crisis and the urgent need for transformative change in our relationship with the natural world.

Find out more about Sandra’s work here 

Watch a short clip about Sandra’s award here

Watch Sandra’s lecture which she gave to us here: The new Global Biodiversity Framework the good, the bad and the narratives. Sandra Diaz