Hamera Aisha is a wildlife ecologist with over 16 years of dedicated experience in wildlife conservation. She works with WWF in Pakistan as a Senior Manager of Wildlife Conservation.
Hamera Aisha is a wildlife ecologist with over 15 years of dedicated experience in wildlife conservation, particularly focusing on the domains of poaching, illegal trade, protected areas management, and community conservation, with rangers consistently serving as the linchpin of her efforts. From river dolphins to the elusive snow leopards of the mountains, she has worked in diverse ecosystems, and species, alongside wildlife and forest. She works with WWF in Pakistan as Senior Manager of Wildlife Conservation.
Report Launch
Hidden Figures Book Launch and Discussion (feel free to edit it; can also be more poetic and a "tribute to the bravery of women rangers, etc.") It’s a report about women wildlife rangers and the report being launched.
Baithak
This session explores women as natural stewards and leaders, "friends of nature", whose intimate relationships with land, water, wildlife, and culture are essential to keeping ecosystems alive. Across mountains, rivers, forests, plains, and coasts, women act as the eyes and ears on the ground, protecting biodiversity through care, knowledge, and courage. From mountain landscapes where Wildlife Sheroes safeguard leopards, medicinal plants, and fragile ecosystems, the baithak examines how women-led conservation and monitoring emerge from lived connection rather than distant management. These women embody a mountain consciousness, observant and resilient, offering a distinctly feminine lens to conservation. The session journeys into stories and symbols, where a woman transforms into a dolphin to protect the river, echoing programmes such as sakhi, and reflecting the mystic bond between the feminine and water. The dolphin, often imagined as a female guardian, becomes a symbol of fluid intelligence, protection, and kinship with rivers. In agricultural plains, women steward the land from sowing to harvest, especially in cash-crop landscapes like cotton. They serve as vital connectors between nature, livelihoods, and sustainability, holding ecological knowledge that bridges soil health, water use, and community well-being. We also explore forests and mangroves, including sacred landscapes such as Karoonjhar, where the divine feminine is inseparable from nature, and regions that serve as strongholds for species like vultures. Across traditions and local folklore, women, species, and ecosystems intertwine, each reflecting and sustaining the other through story, ritual, and belief. Finally, the session would acknowledge the vulnerabilities of women, species, and ecosystems alike, highlighting how environmental degradation, climate change, and social inequities threaten these relationships, while also revealing women’s leadership as a powerful pathway toward resilience and regeneration.
