Oscar Venter was recently awarded the Distinguished Scholar Award from the Natural Resource and Environmental Studies Institute for his achievements in 2020.

Oscar had an extremely prolific year in 2020 with 20 published peer-reviewed contribution Dr. Venter and collaborators published in a variety of upper echelon journals in 2020, including the likes of: Global Change Biology, Conservation Biology, Nature, Nature Communications, Biological Conservation, Environmental Reviews, Nature Ecology and Evolution, PNAS, One Earth, Global Ecology and Conservation, Conservation Letters, and Conservation Science and Practice.