Award in the Life Sciences 2025

The winner of the RSNSW Award in the Life Sciences for 2025 is Professor Richard Kingsford AO FRSN FRZS, Director of the Centre for Ecosystem Science at UNSW Sydney.

Richard Kingsford is widely regarded as one of Australia’s most prominent and respected experts on waterbird, wetland and river ecology, with the majority of his 30+ year career having been focused on restoring and protecting the wetland ecosystems of NSW. Over the past decade, he has extended his influence to terrestrial ecology, leading the Wild Deserts Partnership Project in far western NSW, reintroducing locally extinct mammal species and controlling feral predators. His long-term contribution to environmental science in NSW has been nothing short of transformational.