page_title: William F. Laurance
section_title: Awards and honours
hierarchical_section_title: William F. Laurance / Awards and honours
caption_attribution_description: English: William F. Laurance and Tom Lovejoy accepting the BBVA Frontiers in Ecology and Environment Award, in Madrid, Spain in 2009.
context_page_description: William F. Laurance, also known as Bill Laurance, is Distinguished Research Professor at James Cook University, Australia and has been elected as a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science. He has received an Australian Laureate Fellowship from the Australian Research Council. He held the Prince Bernhard Chair for International Nature Conservation at Utrecht University, Netherlands from 2010 to 2014.
context_section_description: His awards include the 2008 BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Ecology and Conservation Biology (co-winner with Thomas Lovejoy), the Heineken Environment Prize, and a Distinguished Service Award from the Society for Conservation Biology.
  Cassowary Prize for Tropical Research and Conservation, 2018
  Elected Fellow of the Australian Academy of Sciences, 2015.
  Outstanding Contributions to Nature Conservation, Zoological Society of London, 2015.
  The Dr A.H. Heineken Prize for Environmental Sciences, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences and A. H. Heineken Foundation, 2012.
  Distinguished Service Award, Society for Conservation Biology, 2011.
  Six-time recipient of the Faculty of 1000 Selection for Outstanding Articles.
  Four-time winner of Australia's Best Science Writing Prize.
  Top 50-most cited papers in Biological Conservation.
  Australian Laureate Fellowship, 2010
  Distinguished Alumni Award, Boise State University, USA, 2010.
  BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Ecology and Conservation Biology Award (co-winner with Thomas Lovejoy), 2008 
  Highly Cited Researcher Award, ISI Thompson Scientific, 2007, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019
  Outstanding Paper of the Year, International Association of Landscape Ecologists, 2006
caption: Laurance and Thomas Lovejoy accepting the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Ecology and Environment, in Madrid, Spain in 2009.
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