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Researcher who listens to forests wins 2026 Pritzker Environmental Genius Award
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Zuzana Burivalova, a tropical forest ecologist, won the 2026 Pritzker Emerging Environmental Genius Award from UCLA's Institute of the Environment and Sustainability for using audio recorders to track forest health across Papua New Guinea, Indonesia, Peru, Madagascar, and Ecuador. The $100,000 prize will go toward expanding her Soundscape Baselines Project with local scientists and communities.
Finalists Doris Njagi, founder of a native-tree restoration group in East Africa, and Suzanne Pierre, a microbial ecologist studying human impacts on carbon and nitrogen cycling, each received $15,000.
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