Eerik Kumari Award () is an award given since 1989 to those who have excelled in bioscience in

Estonia Estonia, formally the Republic of Estonia, is a country by the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the sea across from Sweden, to the south by Latvia, and t ...

. It is named after

Eerik Kumari Eerik Kumari born Erik Mathias Sits (7 March 1912 – 8 January 1984) was a biologist, and pioneer of ornithology and nature conservation in Estonia. He was born in Kirbla, Lihula Parish. He was a director of the Institute of Zoology and Bota ...

(1912–1984), who was chairman of the National Conservation Committee of the

Estonian Academy of Sciences Founded in 1938, the Estonian Academy of Sciences ( et, Eesti Teaduste Akadeemia) is Estonia's national academy of science in Tallinn. As with other national academies, it is an independent group of well-known scientists whose stated aim is to ...

from 1952 to 1977. The Eerik Kumari award is currently valued at 5,000 euros, but 30,000 kroons in the past.

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Estonian awards Science and technology in Estonia Environmental awards Awards established in 1989 1989 establishments in Estonia {{Estonia-stub

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