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Stuart Pimm To Be Awarded The Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement!

Laurie Marker of the Cheetah Conservation Fund and Stuart Pimm of Duke University recognized for scientific and management contributions to the understanding and restoration of ecosystems.Winners to deliver public lectures April 22 at USC, which administers the prize.Two conservationists whose careers have centered on understanding ecosystem functions as the essential foundation for ecosystem restoration will share the 2010 Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement.The award, consisting of a $200,000 cash prize and gold medals, will go to Laurie Marker, the co-founder and executive director of the Cheetah Conservation Fund in Otjiwarongo, Namibia, and professor Stuart Pimm, the Doris Duke Professor of Conservation Ecology at Duke University in Durham, N.C.On Thursday, April 22, at 2 p.m., Marker and Pimm will deliver public lectures at USC, which administers the prize.On Friday, April 23, at 7 p.m., the Tyler Prize executive committee and the international environmental community will honor the recipients at

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