Hamera is an ecologist with over 10 years of experience in biodiversity and integrated community-based conservation. Currently, she is working with WWF Pakistan and is developing and leading projects and research studies that support the protection of diminishing wildlife and their habitats in Pakistan, along with addressing key drivers of poverty affecting the lives of natural resource-dependent communities. Her work also includes demonstrating and experimenting with new approaches to support and strengthen biodiversity conservation.
An ecologist, graduated from the Univeristy of East Anglia, UK, recipient of the European Union’s Erasmus Mundus Scholarship for the International Masters in Applied Ecology
Managing the illegal wildlife trade control initiative supported by the USAID
Supervising captive breeding initiative of the Gyps vulture restoration Project
Managing the Indus River Dolphin conservation Project
Developing new research and community-based conservation proposals
Project Manager , Researcher with keen interest in environmental education
Assisted in the development of a profile database of the international Tuna corporations and their subsidiaries involved in fresh and frozen Tuna trade with Smart Fishing Initiative Team ofWorld Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), Germany
Coordinate WWF – Pakistan‘s Small Conservation initiative funding Programme.
Worked with grass-root level organisations in developing and implementing concepts according to the conservation priorities set-out in Global Programme Framework of WWF in Pakistan.